Sentences with phrase «of wheat stem rust»

We would also welcome work with conservationists of endangered, barberry - dependent insect species to ensure that planting of common barberry occurs away from arable land, thus safeguarding European cereals from a large - scale re-emergence of wheat stem rust.»

Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

CAUTION: Risk of wheat stem rust in Mediterranean Basin in the forthcoming 2017 crop season following outbreaks on Sicily in 2016

Emergence of Virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 Race Group of Wheat Stem Rust, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, in Africa / Plant Disease February 2016, Volume 100, Number 2, Page 522

Emergence of virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 race group of wheat stem rust, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, in Africa.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, stands in front of the einkorn wheat researchers used for identifying the Sr35 gene that is resistant to the Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust.

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.

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

This makes me happy: a research project has identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen, Ug99.

Not exact matches

In 1904, stem rust destroyed more than half the harvest in South Dakota, then considered the wheat center of the world.

First, they chemically mutagenized the resistant accession of wheat to identify plants that become susceptible to the stem rust pathogen.

Nobel Peace Prize — winner Norman Borlaug developed resistant varieties of wheat that protected the world against stem rust for decades.

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.

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).

The research, published today in the journal Nature Plants, quantifies for the first time the circumstances — routes, timings and outbreak sizes — under which dangerous strains of stem rust pose a threat from long - distance dispersal out of East Africa to the large wheat - producing areas in India and Pakistan.

A gene isolated from one of the earliest cultivated wheat species, Einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum), confers resistance to a deadly version of stem rust, scientists report June 27 in Science.

Stem rust disease was controlled for decades through the use of resistant wheat varieties bred in the 1950s by scientist Norman Borlaug and his colleagues.

Up to 2014 wheat stem rust was not considered of major importance in Western Siberia, but severe epidemics in 2015 and 2016 has changed the situation.

A scourge of wheat since biblical times, stem rust caused major losses to North American wheat crops in the early 20th century.

First Report of Virulence to Sr25 in Race TKTTF of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Causing Stem Rust on Wheat / Patpour, Mehran; Hovmøller, Mogens Støvring; Hodson, D.

We are pleased that the activities of the Global Rust Reference Center for yellow rust (GRRC), which was established in Denmark by the end of 2008, on behalf of CIMMYT, ICARDA and Aarhus University, are now being extended to cover wheat (black) stem rRust Reference Center for yellow rust (GRRC), which was established in Denmark by the end of 2008, on behalf of CIMMYT, ICARDA and Aarhus University, are now being extended to cover wheat (black) stem rrust (GRRC), which was established in Denmark by the end of 2008, on behalf of CIMMYT, ICARDA and Aarhus University, are now being extended to cover wheat (black) stem rustrust.

«This signals the rising threat of stem rust disease for wheat and barley production in Europe,» said Dave Hodson, senior scientist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and co-author on the swheat and barley production in Europe,» said Dave Hodson, senior scientist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and co-author on the sWheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and co-author on the study.

He wrote about stem rust in The Times last year, describing how the disease «can turn a healthy crop of wheat into a tangled mass of stems that produce little or no grain.»