Project Number: 5440-21000-029-03
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Apr 22, 2006
End Date: Mar 15, 2011

Objective:
To develop hard winter wheats with resistance to nascent races of stripe rust in the Great Plains.

Approach:
Wheat germplasm of diverse and world-wide origin will be exposed to nascent races of stripe rust. Seed of resistant lines will be increased, under quarantine, and distributed to wheat breeding programs throughout the U.S.