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Article: STRIPE RUST FOUND ON GALLATIN VALLEY WINTER WHEAT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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Montana State University issued the following press release:
Stripe rust has been positively confirmed in Gallatin County on susceptible hard white winter wheat varieties.
"Conditions have been extremely favorable for stripe rust development, and if it remains cool and wet, we may see this disease blow up very quickly," says Mary Burrows, Montana State University Extension plant pathologist. Germination of the sprores is best between 41 and 59 degrees Fahrenheit.
Burrows said that the hard white winter wheat varieties that have stripe rust at the MSU Post Farm west of Bozeman are Nuwest and Big Sky, while the resistant variety named Yellowstone in an adjoining plot does not show symptoms.
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