Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

WHEAT is a cornerstone of national food security as well as rural livelihood, serving as the staple diet for over ...

Scientists identify genes affecting root length that could make it easier to breed drought-resistant wheat. Wheat is a key crop for ensuring global food security, but drought associated with climate ...

BROOKINGS - A number of diseases can develop in winter wheat and their effective management involves taking some actions before planting, says Emmanuel Byamukama, Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension ...

Sunish Sehgal, winter wheat breeder at South Dakota State University, explains the evolution of wheat and what can be ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 285, No. 1/2 (2006), pp. 45-55 (11 pages) As the critical information to study flow transport in soil–plant systems, root distributions and root-water-uptake (RWU) patterns have ...

If you’ve attended a K-State Research and Extension wheat plot tour in the last few years, you might remember the K-State Specialist mentioning the dangers of stem rust and the increasing use of ...

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 ...

The world's top wheat experts have reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 201, No. 2 (April (II) 1998), pp. 265-273 (9 pages) Root growth and soil water content were measured in a field experiment with wheat subjected to two periods of water deficit.