Genetic Tools in the Battle against Stem Rust (8 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Genetic Tools in the Battle against Stem Rust (8 of 8)

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This is a wheat field damaged by stem rust, in Njoro, Kenya. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 27, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Cyrille Saintenac at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, and colleagues was titled, "Identification of Wheat Gene Sr35 That Confers Resistance to Ug99 Stem Rust Race Group."

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[Image courtesy of Matt Rouse]

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