Rust-resistant wheat makes a happy breeder

Sridhar Bhavani, CIMMYT wheat pathologist breeder

and coordinator of the Durable

Rust Resistance in Wheat project in eastern Africa, is

a happy wheat breeder. On

his left is a wheat variety

highly resistant to Ug99, a

stem rust threatening wheat production throughout the

world. The variety completely

resisted infestation by the

variety on his right, which was

deliberately inoculated with

the fungal pathogen at the Kenya

Agricultural Research Institute,

Njoro, Nakuru County, Kenya.

 

 

W. Ojanji/CIMMYT

 

www.cimmyt.org

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