Fighting wheat rusts in China: a look back and into the future

Abstract Wheat rusts, including stripe, leaf, and stem rusts, are severe wheat diseases and cause huge yield loss in China annually. Benefiting from utilizing the genetic resistance wheat varieties, wheat stem rust has been effectively controlled since the 1970s; however, the wheat stripe and leaf r...

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Main Authors: Jie Zhao, Zhensheng Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-02-01
Series:Phytopathology Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42483-023-00159-z