An international team of researchers has discovered a gene that will make bread wheat capable of resisting stripe rust, a fungus that causes crop losses in many states. Scientists transferred a ...

Researchers have cloned the wheat rust resistance genes Lr9 and Sr43 and identified that they encode unusual kinase fusion proteins [1] [2]. Their research will enable new options for addressing ...

As the world’s population continues to grow, so does its appetite for cereal grains, which include such dietary staples as wheat. This growing demand has driven agricultural scientists to develop ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have pinpointed two genes that protect wheat against devastating fungal diseases found worldwide, potentially paving the way to hardier wheat strains, international ...

A genomic resource for the wild grass species Tausch’s goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) has been developed by a team of international researchers led by KAUST. This new understanding will accelerate gene ...

Stripe rust, a crop disease seldom found in Minnesota and North Dakota, has popped in wheat fields in northwestern Minnesota and elsewhere. But warm weather in late June and early July should prevent ...