Middle-East resistance

By Liz Wells
Updated September 22 2015 - 2:04pm, first published March 3 2015 - 4:00am
University of Southern Queensland Centre for Crop Health professor of crop nematology John Thompson (left) and plant pathologist Jason Sheedy check developments on some of the wheat varieties being assessed for nematode resistance.
University of Southern Queensland Centre for Crop Health professor of crop nematology John Thompson (left) and plant pathologist Jason Sheedy check developments on some of the wheat varieties being assessed for nematode resistance.

WHEAT varieties that feature improved root-lesion nematode (RLN) resistance are in the pipeline thanks to a GRDC-funded project that has identified resistance genes in wheat cultivars from Australia and CIMMYT, the world's wheat-breeding hub in Mexico, and landraces (traditional, local varieties) from Morocco, Iran and Iraq.

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