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Article: Rust proof! Idaho experts search for stem-rust-resistant wheat.
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Somewhere, village farmers might still grow traditional wheats that could hold the remedy for stem rust. Killer races of that plant disease newly threaten wheat around the world.
The traditional, locally grown wheats may just happen to have genes that could fend off rusts now emerging in east Africa. That's according to plant pathologist J. Michael Bonman, who leads the ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit at Aberdeen, Idaho.
Scientists refer to these local wheats as "landraces." These plants are targets of the Idaho team's fast-paced, high-intensity search for untapped sources of stem-rust resistance.
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