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Employing Wheat's Bacterial Partners to Fight a Pathogen

August 07, 2018 Briana K. Whitaker, Indiana University Graduate Student and ARS Intern

Fusarium head blight is a devastating fungal disease affecting wheat and barley crops worldwide. According to the American Phytopathological Society, this disease has cost U.S. wheat and barley farmers more than $3 billion since 1990. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, together with...

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