News tagged with rust
Green sludge can protect groundwater from radioactive contamination
Radioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years to stabilize. The element Neptunium, a waste product from uranium reactors, could pose an especially serious health risk should it ever seep ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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New perspectives and guidance for managing white pine blister rust
The August 2010 journal, Forest Pathology, provides a synthesis of knowledge on C. ribicola, identifies policy and management actions to mitigate disease impacts, and reviews future issues facing white pine management such ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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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.
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Plant disease -- more than a crop killer
The devastating consequences of emerging infectious diseases on crops in developing countries and their economic and social impacts are often underestimated, according to a new study by Maurizio Vurro and his colleagues from ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Uncovering the mystery of a major threat to wheat
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have solved a longstanding mystery as to why a pathogen that threatens the world's wheat supply can be so adaptable, diverse and virulent. It is because the fungus that causes ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Mutant fungus threatens global wheat supply: scientists
Scientists have identified four new strains of a wheat-killing fungus that could endanger the global food supply, according to research presented Wednesday ahead of a conference in Russia.
May 26, 2010 |
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ARS scientists turn to a wild oat to combat crown rust
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats worldwide.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Studies provide insight into key oat chemical
Studies conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are helping to increase understanding about the environmental factors that regulate production of avenanthramides (Avns), metabolites with potent antioxidant ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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ARS genetic analysis helps spot sugarcane rusts
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have analyzed rust fungi from more than 160 sugarcane samples from 25 countries to provide a valuable resource for plant breeders and pathologists who are searching for genetic ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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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 ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Top wheat experts call for scaling up efforts to combat Ug99 and other wheat rusts
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 ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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New wheat disease could spread faster than expected
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 ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Scientists gain in struggle against wheat rust
(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.
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Gene to reduce wheat yield losses
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.
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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