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Plant Defensin from Legume Confers Resistance to Leaf Rust in Wheat |
 Leaf rust caused by fungus Puccinia triticina (Pt) is known as an economically important disease of wheat globally, causing up to 50 percent yield loss. For the past years, producers used resistant wheat cultivars to control the disease, but genetic resistance lasts only for a short time and breaks down with the arrival of new virulent Pt strains. Thus, Jagdeep Kaur of Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and colleagues developed a transgenic wheat with durable resistance to leaf rust.
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GM APPROVAL UPDATES |
- Nigeria approved the wheat event HB4 for food and feed.
- Ghana approved the cowpea event AAT709A for food, feed, and cultivation.
- The USA approved the wheat event HB4 for food and feed.
- Turkey approved the maize event MON87427 for feed.
- Australia and New Zealand approved the wheat event HB4 for food and feed.
- The USA approved canola event LBFLFK for food and feed.
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University of Virginia economics professor Federico Ciliberto leads the largest-ever study of the 
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Sequence-specific nucleases (SSNs) have known to be powerful tools for crop improvement, with CRISPR/Cas9 being thought to be the most effective. A team of researchers from Guangxi University, the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences and the South 
