Plant diseases are responsible for at least 10% of yield losses in global food production Incidence and severity of two important cereal crop diseases, Fusarium head blight (FHB) and tan spot are increasing with the impacts of climate change FHB is responsible for mycotoxin contamination of grains…
Flax rust is a serious disease that reached epidemic levels in North America two or three times in the previous century Since the 1970s, however, immunity to flax rust in all Canadian cultivars has depended on the L6 allele for rust resistance This reliance on a single version (allele) of this gene…
Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada recently completed the genetic mapping of the blackleg resistance gene Rlm11 Rlm11 is effective against the L maculans isolates carrying the avirulence gene AvrLm11, which is found in 95 percent of L maculans isolates collected from western Canadian…
