Sentences with phrase «called stem rust»
An audio slideshow chronicles Norman Borlaugs lifelong efforts to defeat a wheat pathogen called stem rust (also see News Focus).
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Bringing researchers together to work on stem rust has now become a second calling for Borlaug.
Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.
Numerous stem rust resistance (Sr) genes are known and in recent years several of these have been cloned and used to develop so - called «perfect» markers to allow more rapid and accurate breeding.
Scientists now find another strain of fungus, called Ug99 (or stem rust), has claimed a new victim: Our global