News tagged with rust resistance

New wheat varieties resist global wheat threat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative techniques in wheat breeding are necessary to meet the needs of the world's growing population and overcome environmental challenges, said Ravi Singh at the American Association for the Advancement ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineered beans show promise for Africa

Slender green beans air-freighted from Kenya to markets in Western Europe are a profitable crop for high-altitude farms across sub-Saharan Africa. Breeding efforts at Cornell could help their lower altitude ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem rust-resistant wheat landraces identified

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists first to characterize barley plant-stem rust spore 'communication'

Traditional thought has held that disease had to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance; however, two Washington State University scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient wheat plague threatens world crops anew

Diseases that ravage wheat fields are as old as time itself. The ancient Romans even had a legend to explain the terrible plagues.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

International scientists warn of growing threat of wheat rust epidemics worldwide

Researchers meeting at a scientific conference in Aleppo this week reported that aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases – called stem rust and stripe rust – have decimated up to 40% of farmers' wheat fields ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bright New Dry Bean for Salads and Other Foods

(PhysOrg.com) -- Crimson, a new cranberry dry bean cultivar, is now available for production in the form of foundation seed that could give rise to a new bumper crop of the colorful legume for 2010.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Understanding apples' ancestors

Wild Malus orientalis -- species of wild apples that could be an ancestor of today's domesticated apples -- are native to the Middle East and Central Asia. A new study comparing the diversity of recently acquir ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0