After heavy disease pressure in 2025, many farmers are wondering if investing more inputs into their crop to combat disease ...

Researchers have found a gene in wheat that acts to promote rust fungal infection. Disrupting the function of this gene provides resistance to two of the most economically damaging diseases of wheat ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

Stripe rust may last the entire wheat season, longtime USDA research plant pathologist Xianming Chen says. “It’s a combination of the growth stage and weather conditions,” Chen told Capital Press of ...

Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you are ...

Eighteen participating member countries will have something to smile about. Characterization of the resistance will be by morphology as well as through molecular marker assisted methods. The breeders ...