Recent Advances in Wheat Head Scab Research in China
Li-Feng Chen, Gui-Hua Bai, and Anne E. Desjardins
USDA, Agricultural
Research Service
Wheat Head Scab (WHS) is a serious threat
to wheat crops world-wide. Crop losses in the United States have
exceeded $2 billion. There are few good treatments to suppress
or 
control the disease. Breeding resistance
is the best long-term solution for this devastating problem.
To date the most significant source of genetic resistance to wheat head scab has been found in Chinese wheat varieties. The work conducted in China has largely been published in Chinese and has not been widely accessible to Western wheat breeders.
The Agricultural Research Service's National Agricultural Library and the Mycotoxin Research Unit jointly funded this review of recent wheat head scab research in China. The Web-site is best viewed using Version 4 or higher of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
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