Genetic Modification Could Stop Wheat Rust Epidemic

Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

Sr35 has been identified as a gene that enables resistance to a new race, or strain, of stem rust, a disease that is producing large wheat yield losses throughout Africa and Asia and threatening global food security. read more

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