Researchers have identified stem rust resistance in the wild cereal plant Aegilops sharonensis and successfully transferred the resistance gene into bread wheat. Stem rust is a significant disease in ...

Stem rust is a significant disease in wheat crops around the world, with outbreaks expected to become more common under future scenarios of climate change. The reemergence of the disease over the past ...

Dr. Miyaji Naomi, who is currently a researcher at Iwate Biotechnology Research Center) and Arjina Akter, who is a Ph.D. student in the same doctorate program with their colleagues, elucidated that ...

About one-fifth of the global wheat production is lost to diseases and pests 1. Breeding for durable disease resistance continuous to be a major endeavor and priority of most wheat improvement ...

Table 1 The phenotype of six parental accessions includes resistance, agronomic and grain traits. All 16 stripe rust loci/genes detected in the population were identified. The distribution of the ...

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 ...

More seed of winter wheat feed varieties with good resistance to yellow rust will be available this autumn after the ...