Rot-resistant wheat found

CSIRO researchers have identified wheat and barley lines resistant to Crown Rot – a disease that costs Australian wheat and barley farmers $79 million in lost yield every year.

CSIRO Plant Industry:  http://www.csiro.au/news/Rot-resistant-wheat-could-save-farmers-millions.html

Finding genes and molecular markers associated with resistance and susceptibility to the  Fusarium fungus