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

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

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 |

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

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

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 ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(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.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 17, 2009 not rated yet 0

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 not rated yet 0