Wild Grass Tapped to Overcome Devastating Progress of Stem Rust
January 27, 2012| |
Ug99, a devastating stem rust disease of wheat has been encroaching large areas of fields from Uganda to Iran, and new strains have been detected recently. To develop resistant strains of wheat, scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory will be exploring a wild grass collection from coastal plains in Israel.
The project funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, The Two Blades Foundation and The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will seek to identify and isolate a few genes from the wild weeds resistant to stem rust, and introduce them into locally-adapted high yielding bread wheat.
More on this news can be viewed at http://www.tsl.ac.uk/stemrust.html
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