WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news: A fungal tenant of sorts that lives inside wheat plants could get its chance to "pay it forward" in the fight against fusarium head blight (a.k.a. scab), a costly disease of cereal crops worldwide. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Peoria, Illinois, are studying the fungal tenant for its potential to biologically control Fusarium graminearum, a harmful   more

BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 13 -- Theoretical and Applied Genetics, a journal that says it features plant genetics, genomics and biotechnology, published research articles, including the following topics, in its October 2020 edition: Original Articles: * Characterizing introgression-by-environment interactions using maize near isogenic lines * Identification of a genomic region controlling thermotolerance at flowering in maize using a combination of whole genomic re-sequencing and bulked segre  more