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Brazil To Debut Rust-Resistant Soy

June 18, 2009

Brazil is set to begin commercial planting of a soybean variety with a gene that makes it resistant to the devastating Asian rust fungus, which is beginning to develop tolerance to conventional fungicides. Local growers could markedly reduce production costs if the new variety, which was developed by the Fundacao MT in Brazil’s No. 1

Cereals, Crops

Devastating New Stem Rust Advances Beyond Africa

By Ron Friesen April 9, 2009

“It’s probably not a matter of if but when.” –TOM FETCH, AAFC “Behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. And behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full

Cereals, Crops

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

By Mica Rosenberg March 26, 2009

Amutant form of stem rust that wipes out wheat crops could spread to top producers in Asia unless new resistant varieties of wheat are distributed widely, experts say. Stem rust “annihilates, that’s not an exaggeration,” said Rick Ward, a rust expert from Cornell University. “Basically the entire world’s wheat crop is fertile breeding ground,” Ward

Cereals, Crops, News

Scientists Find Genes To Protect Wheat From Rust

By Michael Kahn March 5, 2009

Scientists have pinpointed two genes that protect wheat against devastating fungal diseases found worldwide, potentially paving the way to hardier wheat strains, international researchers reported Feb. 20. New research published in the journal Science showed how the genes provide resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and powdery mildew, diseases responsible for millions of hectares of

Oilseeds, Other

Steps to mitigate sunflower rust next year

By Allan Dawson November 6, 2008

“Sunflower rust does not require an alternate host like cereal rust does.” – KHALID RASHID Sunflower rust cut yields and bushel weight significantly in some Manitoba fields this year. Seventy-four per cent of the sunflower fields surveyed in Manitoba this year had rust ranging from a trace to 40 per cent of the leaf area

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soy hits 17-month high, corn to four-month top as trade braces for U.S. data

Federal budget shows remaining disconnect between agriculture, policymakers, panelists say

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures continue downward

Tag Archives Rust

Brazil To Debut Rust-Resistant Soy

Devastating New Stem Rust Advances Beyond Africa

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

Scientists Find Genes To Protect Wheat From Rust

Steps to mitigate sunflower rust next year

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