Why some rust-resistant plant genes maintain their potency as the fungus co-evolves has long baffled crop researchers. For instance, over the past 50 years leaf rust and stripe rust have become no ...

Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive ...

The world's food supply got a little more plentiful thanks to a scientific breakthrough. Scientists have identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the ...

L.M. Wang, Z.Y. Zhang, H.J. Liu, S.C. Xu, M.Z. He, H.X. Liu, O. Veisz and Z.Y. Xin Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST), is one of the ...