While there's some benefit to having a wheat variety on which stripe rust develops more slowly, the industry will need to either increase the number of minor genes used to combat stripe rust or combine them with traditional major-gene, strong resistance to specific races of stripe rust in our varieties, say researchers from Kansas State University.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeders will continue to build on their development of hybrid wheat varieties through a $975,000 joint grant with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.