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…
Persistence of alfalfa under grass competition or persistence of sainfoin under alfalfa competition raises a similar breeding question This project was a 5-yr forage breeding research initiated in spring of 2017 The objectives of the research were: to evaluate and select 1) alfalfa clones growing…
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…
Fusarium seed infection has been noted in canary seed in past years In this study, we evaluated the consequences of Fusarium seed infection on canary seed yield and quality, determined the causal species involved and the impacts that infection at various growth stage of canary seed Fusarium seed…
