Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive ...

Kansas State University wheat breeder Allan Fritz is working on durable leaf-rust resistance in new wheat varieties. Combining several resistance genes that, individually, impart only a minor level of ...

Stripe rust, the yellow scourge of wheat fields caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is one of the most ...

URBANA, Ill. - Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus ...

Combining several resistance genes that, individually, impart only a minor level of leaf-rust protection should offer more durable resistance than using a single gene with strong resistance to ...