date:Jul 03, 2013
um monococcum, a close relative of pasta and bread wheat. Now, scientists with the Triticeae-Coordinated Agriculture Project (T-CAP) and Kansas State University have copied this gene.
The study, authored by Eduard Akhunov at Kansas State University and Jorge Dubcovsky at the University of California-Davis, was published in todays issue of the journal Science. As part of the study, co-author Matt Rouse, an ARS plant pathologist at St. Paul, screened wheat varieties for Ug99 resistance at the onl