Sentences with phrase «wheat stem rust pathogen»

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 discovery may help scientists develop new wheat varieties and strategies that protect the world's food crops against the wheat stem rust pathogen.

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.

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Wheat stem rust is caused by a fungal pathogen.

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

An audio slideshow chronicles Norman Borlaugs lifelong efforts to defeat a wheat pathogen called stem rust (also see News Focus).