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Rust proof! Idaho experts search for stem-rust-resistant wheat.
Agricultural Research
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November 1, 2007|
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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, Idaho.
Scientists refer to these local wheats as "landraces." These plants are targets of the Idaho team's ...
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Fall-seeding alfalfa can be risky business.
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; ...who've successfully done it, notes plant pathologist Paul Vincelli, of the University...compared it with so far, says ARS plant pathologist Robert Pratt in discussing lab and...in the ARS germplasm is extension plant pathologist Erik Stromberg, who is at the Virginia...
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On guard against watermelon vine decline.
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; ...other states. Research efforts led by plant pathologist Scott Adkins at the ARS Subtropical...entomologist, and Carlye Baker, a plant pathologist with the Florida Department of Agriculture...field trials, in collaboration with plant pathologist Pam Roberts and entomologist Phil...
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A Unique Potato Virus Collection.(Brief Article)
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; If a plant pathologist, breeder, geneticist, or grower discovered an...Schultz Potato Virus Collection, named after ARS plant pathologist Erwin S. Schultz. He and plant pathologist Donald Folsom, with the Maine Agriculture Experiment...
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Fuzzy leaves confuse fungi.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...millions of dollars in crop losses, says plant pathologist David Long. The fungus is called...Based on pioneering work by ARS plant pathologist John Roberts, who is now retired...Dy the late N.A. Cobb. That USDA plant pathologist theorized that plant leaf hairs interfere...
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The Fort Knox of Exotic Weed Diseases.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...greenhouses that Frederick, Maryland, plant pathologist William L. Bruckart visits each day...facility, Bruckart and colleagues like plant pathologist Norman W. Schaad infect some of America...and insects, explains Bruckart, a plant pathologist. We're trying to reintroduce these...
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Fire blight control, nature's way. (biocontrol of fire blights)
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...hold in Washington. Since then, ARS plant pathologist Virginia O. Stockwell has found streptomycin...pathogen arrives. Steven E. Lindow, plant pathologist at the University of California-Berkeley...Working with Oregon State University plant pathologist Kenneth Johnson, Stockwell and ...
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Why scientists cotton to Egyptian cotton. (research tries to mix Egyptian cotton's resistance to verticillium wilt with American cotton's yields)
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...dahliae. The secret of resistance, says plant pathologist Marshall E. Mace, is the speed with...chemist Robert D. Stipanovic, and plant pathologist Alois A. Bell have been studying...By Sandy Miller Hays, ARS. PHOTO : Plant pathologist Marshall Mace checks for Verticillium...
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Another natural from neem.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...Nursery Crops Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. Locke, a plant pathologist, entomologist Hiram E. Larew (formerly with ARS, now with...effective against both bean and snapdragon rusts. PHOTO : Plant pathologist James Locke displays neem seeds oil, a source of natural...
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Fighting fruit decay nature's way. (includes related articles on treating for fruit flies and protective yeast patents)
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; ...ones. Now, Raymond G. McGuire, a plant pathologist at the ARS Subtropical Horticulture...last year. Treating for Fruit Flies Plant pathologist Raymond G. McGuire says that because...patented by Charles L. Wilson, ARS plant pathologist at Kearneysville, West Virginia...
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Elusive bacteria pinpointed with DNA tests.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research
; ...disease, she says. Pooler, along with plant pathologist John Hartung at the ARS Fruit Laboratory...plant material, says John L. Maas, a plant pathologist at the Beltsville Fruit Laboratory...According to Tim Gottwald, an ARS plant pathologist in Orlando, Florida, there is no...
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