Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive ...

A leading plant breeder is advocating seed treatments against brown rust for most sowings this autumn. His advice comes against an anticipated surge in early drillings, likely extra pressure from the ...

Combining several resistance genes that, individually, impart only a minor level of leaf-rust protection should offer more durable resistance than using a single gene with strong resistance to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety ("Dwight" Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that ...