date:Jul 03, 2013
e wheat grown worldwide is susceptible, so if no preventive action is taken, it could cause wheat shortages and affect food security.
Current wheat varieties do not have resistance to this specific strain of Ug99. However, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., searched the USDA germplasm collections for wheat and its wild relatives to discover the resistance gene Sr35 that is effective against Ug99. The gene was found in Tritic