Sentences with phrase «as stem rust»
A scrappy, ancient species of wheat may help today's widely cultivated bread wheat fight the devastating fungus known as stem rust (shown growing on wheat stems).
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It also has applications in plant breeding by increasing the precision of markers for traits such as malting quality or stem rust.
In 1944 Borlaug, trained as a plant pathologist, left the U.S. for Mexico to fight stem rust, a fungus that infects wheat, at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
The blister rust attacks the family of five - needled white pines, Tomback said, entering through the needle stomata, growing into branches and stems, then erupting as spore - producing cankers that kill the branches and end cone production.