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Tag: wheat breeding
Wheat: K-State Researchers Uncover New Clues for Improving Production Mar 7, 2022
Kansas State University researchers continue to unlock the complexity of the wheat genome, recently publishing findings of a study that characterized numerous genes duplicated thousands of years ago to understand […]
Wheat: Texas A&M to Compile Data of 19 Universities’ Breeding Programs Feb 7, 2022
Texas A&M AgriLife will lead the creation of an unmanned aircraft system, UAS, data hub as a component of a $15 million grant that brings together the strengths of the […]
Wheat: K-State Scientists Earn 2020 Gene Stewardship Award Oct 19, 2020
Two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists working on the Kansas State University campus are part of a national team that has earned praise for its pioneering work in building sturdy […]
Kansas Wheat: New HRS Variety Offer Improved Disease Resistance Jun 11, 2020
A researcher at the Agricultural Research Center in Hays has taken a good thing and made it even better. Wheat scientist Guorong Zhang announced in early June that he is […]
Kansas Wheat Breeder Takes Early Look at Upcoming Releases Jun 3, 2020
Kansas farmers participating in the first-ever Virtual Wheat Field Day last week got an early report on two hard red winter wheat lines expected for release later this year by […]
Arkansas Wheat: Breeding Aimed at Head Scab Resistance Mar 6, 2020
Arkansas scientists are part of a national, multi-institutional research collaboration to combat Fusarium head blight, a serious agricultural disease, also known as scab, that affects wheat and barley crops all […]
Texas Wheat: AgriLife ‘Top Picks’ Varieties Updated Aug 5, 2019
Planted wheat acres were down in 2018-2019 in the Texas Panhandle, but it was still a learning year, according to experts with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas […]
Wheat: Kansas Researchers Look to Beat the Heat for High Yields Jun 14, 2019
Can a small circuit board, barely the size of a credit card, help the world’s wheat to beat the heat? Kansas State University researchers think so, and they say that […]
Wheat: 20-Year Study Nets Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight Jun 12, 2019
Kansas State University researchers have identified a gene that will further boost efforts to develop new wheat varieties capable of resisting Fusarium head blight (FHB), a fungal disease that threatens […]
Wheat: Decoded Durum Genome Opens Doors to Potential Improvements May 16, 2019
In April, the results of a study by a consortium of researchers from seven countries was published in “Nature Genetics” describing the sequence of the entire genome of an Italian […]
