Rust proof! Idaho experts search for stem-rust-resistant wheat. From: Agricultural Research | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Wood, Marcia | COPYRIGHT 2007 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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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, Ida...

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