Novel gene resists toxic wheat disease that costs billions
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at Washington State University and Kansas State University have isolated and cloned a gene that provides resistance to Fusarium head blight, or wheat scab, a crippling disease that caused $7.6 billion in losses in U.S. wheat fields between 1993 and 2001. Their findings are published online in the journal Nature Genetics (http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3706.html). The report […]