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Planting of hard winter wheat research plots in October
 Wheat plots in the grain-filling stage in May
 Getting ready to harvest wheat in a combine in early July
 Close up of wheat heads at the grain-filling stage
 Microscopic spores of leaf rust, stem rust, and stripe rust fungi that cause important diseases of wheat
 Two RNAi transgenic 'Bobwhite' plants (4798R & 5428R) show that FHB resistance in wheat is controlled by the TaHRC gene, compared with the non-transgenic 'Bobwhite' 8 days after inoculation.


Our mission is to develop and provide genetic solutions to several economically important biotic and abiotic stress problems in hard winter wheat including leaf rust, stripe rust, stem rust, Hessian fly, Fusarium head blight, acid soils, and heat stress. We identify new sources of resistance or tolerance, identify resistance and tolerance genes and develop methods for marker-assisted selection, and provide adapted germplasm lines with new traits to breeders for development of new cultivars.


People Antholz, Johnathan Bai, Guihua Bernardo, Amy Chen, Ming-Shun Dominguez, Alexandra Fellers, John Freige, Alexandra Guttieri, Mary Jordan, Katherine Lebar, Lucas Liu, Xuming Schuh, Nick St Amand, Paul Stewart, Emily Stutz, Sydney Vanderlinde, Stephanie Wang, Hongliang Wicker, Kyle


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