This release is available in Spanish. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown ...

Scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats worldwide. Agricultural ...

A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists has released two new oat germplasm lines to shore up the cereal crop's defenses against its most devastating fungal disease, ...

Crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. Avenae Erikss.) poses a significant threat to oat production worldwide. The most effective strategy for managing this disease involves identifying, mapping, and ...

Basidiomycetes like rust fungi have complex reproductive cycles and dikaryotic life stages which influence their population structure and evolution. Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae ( Pca ), the causal ...