Sentences with phrase «stem rust from»

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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.

«For example, a breeder might succeed in adding a favorable allele for stem rust resistance from a wild barley, but along with that gene drag along another gene that causes shattering of the mature head,» Close said.

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.

A similar discrimination of results from SSR or SNP genotyping based on D - samples (dead) and race phenotyping from live samples is under development for stem rust data.

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.»