A team of scientists has identified a promising resistance gene that could help fight a devastating fungus called stem rust, which attacks wheat crops and threatens global food security. The discovery ...

Humans can spread disease by sneezing. But less well known is the wheat plant's ability to do something strangely similar—from its leaves. "It's basically analogous to a human sneeze in terms of, you ...

Cereals have natural resistance to pathogenic fungi, but powdery mildew, for example, can overcome this resistance. A team at ...

Growing several plant varieties in the same field for disease resistance is a longstanding agricultural practice, but can have unpredictable results. A study publishing September 12 th in the open ...

ABERDEEN — Idaho farmers can expect more varieties to be released from University of Idaho’s wheat breeding program that resist the fungal diseases dwarf bunt and common bunt thanks in large part to ...

Plants use sophisticated molecular machinery to distinguish friend from foe, co-exist with other organisms and defend against pathogens. Similarly, plant pathogens have evolved intricate strategies to ...

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is considered to be one of the most devastating diseases of wheat and barley worldwide. Multiple outbreaks of FHB have affected Delaware growers over the past decade, most ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The “deathbed rally,” the “last hurrah” -- it’s not unheard of for living things to mysteriously perk up in the moments before death. It turns out that plants do it too, at least at ...

In the bucolic farming villages that dot the countryside of Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, a hardy plant with a reedy stem, heart-shaped leaves and yellow bugle-like flowers grows thick in the wheat ...