New outbreaks of rust epidemics, for example on previously
resistant wheat cultivars, can be diagnosed rapid and efficient so that preventive and control measures can be implemented without delay.
Not exact matches
Ibrahim and his colleagues have recently released a
cultivar of winter
wheat — TAM 305 — that is
resistant to many of the rust fungi.
Their adaptability makes breeding new
resistant cultivars of
wheat a priority for researchers like Ibrahim.
Agricultural scientists such as Edgar McFadden and Norman Borlaug — who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 — have led efforts to breed
cultivars of
wheat resistant to infection by rusts.