Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive ...

In spring 1920, Edgar McFadden was toiling away in the wheat fields of Agricultural Experiment Statn's Highmore location.

Stem rust is emerging as a disease for barley, Washington State University barley breeder Bob Brueggeman says. Brueggeman observed “an alarming minor epidemic” of the disease in a field of the WSU ...

A leading plant breeder is advocating seed treatments against brown rust for most sowings this autumn. His advice comes against an anticipated surge in early drillings, likely extra pressure from the ...

Kansas State University wheat breeder Allan Fritz is working on durable leaf-rust resistance in new wheat varieties. Combining several resistance genes that, individually, impart only a minor level of ...

It took decades of painstaking work, but a research geneticist managed to cross a popular soybean variety with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first ...

The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety ("Dwight" Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that ...