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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.
Scientists to sequence DNA of British wheat varieties
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have been awarded £1.7 million to decode the genome of wheat, in order to help farmers increase the yield of British wheat varieties.
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.
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Researchers Discover Genes for Frost Tolerance in Wheat
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Apr 29, 2008 |
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The genes responsible for the wide range of freezing temperatures that can be tolerated by different wheat varieties have been identified by a team of U.S. and European scientists, led by a plant scientist ...
Rot-resistant wheat could save farmers millions
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have identified wheat and barley lines resistant to Crown Rot - a disease that costs Australian wheat and barley farmers $79 million in lost yield every year.
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.
Researchers developing better wheat
Feb 16, 2006 |
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Eighteen universities across the United States are combining desirable genes from different varieties of wheat to make better and more competitive varieties.
Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Ancient genes used to produce salt-tolerant wheat
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Feb 01, 2007 |
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Two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety have led to a major advance in breeding new salt-tolerant varieties.
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 ...
Newly Cloned Gene Key to More Adaptable Wheat Varieties
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Dec 05, 2006 |
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In a research discovery that has practical implications for improving wheat varieties, a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have cloned a gene that controls the ...
Australian researchers first in the world to solve the genetic code of canola
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, the genetic code of canola was a mystery. Australian researcher Dr David Edwards, in collaboration with Bayer CropScience and Keygene N.V., is the first in the world to have solved the code, ...
Elusive rust resistance genes located
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Dec 06, 2006 |
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The discovery of a DNA marker for two key rust resistance genes is enabling plant breeders around the world to breed more effective rust resistant wheat varieties.
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