XI'AN -- Chinese scientists have unveiled the world's first genetic map tracking wheat resistance to the devastating yellow rust disease, representing a significant breakthrough that promises more ...

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 ...

Cereal Research Communications, Vol. 44, No. 4 (December 2016), pp. 585-593 (9 pages) In 2013–2015 virulence in the wheat leaf rust population was evaluated on 17 Thatcher near-isogenic lines with ...

The wheat genome is difficult to sequence because it is around five times larger than the human genome. Until 2018, when the first complete wheat genome was sequenced, it was considered an impossible ...

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 ...

The National Agricultural Research Council (NARC) has recently released a new Yellow Rust resistant variety of wheat, WK 1204, after the disease caused extensive damage to the crop last year. Bhola ...

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 ...