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New Rust- And Mosaic-Resistant Beans Released

Six new germplasm lines of the Great Northern dry bean--the first lines to have four resistance genes to a key rust pathogen--have been released to the public by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS ...
Science Daily

New rust resistance genes added to common beans

New cultivars of the common bean could shore up the legume crop's defenses against the fungal disease common bean rust. New cultivars of common bean developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...
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Iowa State University plant pathologists study how Asian soybean rust fungus overrides plant immune systems

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans. Soybean rust fungus poses one of the biggest threats to soybean ...
JSTOR Daily

Kinetic Studies on the Control of the Bean Rust Fungus (Uromyces phaseoli L.) by an Inhibitor of Polyamine Biosynthesis

α-Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), a specific and irreversible inhibitor of the polyamine biosynthetic enzyme ornithine decarboxylase, effectively inhibits mycelial growth of several phytopathogenic ...
Marin Independent Journal

With the rain coming, beware of rust in the garden

What happens when you combine mild weather, rain that lasts for a day or two, and rapidly growing plants fighting for space? Besides a bounty of flowers, foliage might take on an orange-splattered ...
Post-Bulletin

Hurricanes may have brought bean rust

AMES, Iowa -- The; unusually active hurricane season may have provided the conduit for Asian soybean rust to land in the United States, says an Iowa State University expert on the disease. X.B. Yang, ...
Post-Bulletin

Sudden death more likely than bean rust

WASECA, Minn. -- It's unlikely soybean rust will cause a problem in Minnesota this year, says a University of Minnesota soybean pathologist. Jim Kurle, with the University of Minnesota Department of ...