With the baking industry in mind, Oregon State University has developed a higher-yielding soft white winter wheat that's also resistant to the disease stripe rust.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

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

Oct 13, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

Disease-resistant wheat developed over the past half century helped ensure steady world food supplies, but a global team led by researchers from the University of Minnesota warns in a new paper that without increased financial ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 15, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

(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

Feb 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

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

Feb 14, 2012 not rated yet 0

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

Oct 24, 2011 1 / 5 (1) 0

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

Jun 10, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

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

Dec 11, 2009 not rated yet 0

Pacific Northwest wheat growers now have added insurance against outbreaks of yield-robbing fungi, thanks to "Cara," a new, white winter club wheat cultivar developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 20, 2013 not rated yet 0

The world's top wheat experts today reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat fields from East Africa ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Aug 31, 2012 not rated yet 0

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

Apr 20, 2011 4 / 5 (3) 0

(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

Jun 18, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0