Claim · model-written summary
Stem rust resistance was incorporated into wheat in the 1950s breeding programs.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Outcome
- Resistance to stem ruste0
- Direction
- successfully incorporatede0
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Verbatim
e0“Resistance to stem rust was successfully incorporated into wheat in the 1950s in Norman Borlaug’s breeding programs.”
Title
Fungicides Protect the World's Wheat Crop from Rust
Leonard Gianessi; Ashley Williams 2011
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Rust spores infect wheat plants after germination.
- Mechanism Rust reduces wheat grain yield by disrupting grain filling and reducing kernel number and size.
- Observation A stem rust epidemic in central India in 1946-47 caused a 20% loss.
- Observation A stem rust epidemic in Chile in 1951 caused a 40% loss.
- Observation Smallholder farmers have tended to rely entirely on wheat resistance for rust control.