News tagged with rust
Top wheat experts call for scaling up efforts to combat Ug99 and other wheat rusts
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Wheat experts from 26 countries warn that rapidly-moving, wind-borne transboundary wheat diseases continue to threaten food security and wheat genetic diversity worldwide — particularly in the ancient breadbasket stretching ...
New wheat disease could spread faster than expected
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Both plant and human diseases that can travel with the wind have the potential to spread far more rapidly than has been understood, according to a new study, in findings that pose serious concerns not only for some human ...
Scientists gain in struggle against wheat rust
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Researchers are deploying new wheat varieties with an array of resistant genes they hope will baffle and defeat Ug99, a highly dangerous fungus leapfrogging through wheat fields in Africa and Asia.
Gene to reduce wheat yield losses
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel.
Scientists fight stem rust UG99 before it becomes a threat
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wheat breeders and plant pathologists at Montana State University are part of a global effort to develop varieties of wheat resistant to a new fungus. UG99, a stem rust strain that was first discovered in ...
Researchers find rust resistance genes in wild grasses
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Adelaide researchers have identified new sources of stem and leaf rust resistance in wild grass relatives of wheat sourced mostly from the 'fertile crescent' of the Middle East.
Noogoora burr throws researchers a curve ball
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Aug 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What do you do when a weed fights back? Noogoora burr in Australia’s tropical north has done just that but CSIRO scientists aren’t letting it get away with it.
