Sentences with phrase «rust fungus»

Figueroa co-led the sequencing effort for the oat crown rust fungus P. coronata f. sp. avenae along with Shahryar Kianian, research leader at the USDA - ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota.

The race is on to deploy new varieties of wheat resistant to the stem rust fungus Ug99 which is sweeping the globe

The yellow rust fungus is genetically very diverse in the Himalayas, where it can infect wheat and barley as well as common barberry, the sexual host of the fungus, says Sajid Ali, a visiting scientist at the Department of Agroecology in Aarhus University and scientist at the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.

In a race to prevent and control rust disease epidemics, scientists have positioned themselves to better understand how rust fungi infect crops and evolve virulence.

Rapid global spread of two aggressive strains of a wheat rust fungus.

For example, there's a deadly plant pathogen called crown rust fungus which among grains, infects only oat crops.

Tasmania's blueberry industry demands an urgent shift in the way the state deals with outbreaks of the blueberry rust fungus.

In addition, the region contains the alternate host of several rust fungi, i.e. barberry.

Damage inflicted by rust fungi is a significant constraint in food production across the globe.

After using the latest genome sequencing technologies to understand how rust fungi adapt to overcome resistance in crop varieties, scientists from the University of Minnesota, the USDA - ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, the Australian National University, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the University of Sydney are releasing results with two publications in mBio, a journal by the American Society of Microbiology.

«Like humans, rust fungi contain two copies of each chromosome, which makes their genetics much more complicated than other types of fungi,» said Assistant Professor Melania Figueroa from the University of Minnesota.

In parallel, Postdoctoral Fellow Benjamin Schwessinger and Professor John Rathjen at the Australian National University applied similar approaches to develop an improved genome assembly of the stripe rust fungus, P. striiformis f. sp. tritici.

The cedar apple rust fungus induces galls which in the spring produce wormlike growths.

In 1999 a new, highly - virulent strain of the stem rust fungus emerged in eastern Africa.

For example, the coffee leaf rust fungus has had devastating effects in Latin America.

A recent discovery is where the invasive strains of the yellow rust fungus have their origin in the Himalayas.

The group also confirmed for the first time in many decades that the stem rust fungus was growing on barberry bush, the pathogen's alternate host, in the UK.

Areas of focus include three major groups of human pathogens (Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and the dimorphic fungi), obligate pathogens of diverse hosts (Microsporidia and Pneumocystis), and the wheat rust fungi (Puccinia sp) that cause current agricultural epidemics.

Instead of having to overcome one major resistance factor, the rust fungi face plants that have a number of weaker, or minor, resistance genes.

Ibrahim and his colleagues have recently released a cultivar of winter wheat — TAM 305 — that is resistant to many of the rust fungi.

Beekeepers will have mixed feelings about a rust fungus that could be the downfall of the Himalayan balsam plant (6...

The publications describing the work in the oat crown rust and wheat stripe rust pathogens, both released in the current issue of mBio, will serve as a framework for future studies of virulence evolution in these pathogens as well as for applying similar approaches to the rust fungi causing many other major crop diseases.

Another focus was understanding the biology of the rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix.

Barberry, which serves as a spawning ground for the stem rust fungus, was largely eradicated from the U.K. and U.S. last century, greatly reducing the spread and genetic diversification of rust disease races.

Farmers select crown rust fungus resistant oat crops, but scientists have discovered that the more crown rust fungus an oat plant is infected with, the more avenanthramides it generates.

Trees growing in an ozone - enriched atmosphere have been hit much harder by their traditional enemies: forest tent caterpillars, aphids and the rust fungus Melampsora.