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reeding small grains for the agriculture industry is a bit like waging war in search of a truce while knowing there will never be peace. “It’s all about survival,� said Juliet Marshall, a cereal grains pathologist for the University of Idaho’s Aberdeen Research and Extension Center. She and UI wheat researcher Jianli Chen have come up with what Marshall describes as “a small weapon� in the continuing battle against a fungal disease that attacks wheat and barley crops, especially in southern Idaho where corn is grown. The weapon is a new resistant wheat variety called UI Stone. Feed corn, Marshall explained, is grown to fuel the state’s dairy industry. But corn also harbors a fungal disease called Fusarium head blight, also known as scab. The fungus produces a
toxin (often retained in fields where corn-wheatbarley annual rotations are used), that can render the wheat and barley crops unmarketable. The best practice, Marshall said, would be Marshall to never rotate corn into fields where wheat and barley are grown. But if that can’t be done, planting UI Stone should help wheat farmers retain acceptable yields and necessary quality. UI Stone, among other things, has been touted as excellent for production of cookies and noodles. “There’s a whole different bunch of pressures on breeders,� Marshall said. “Number one, they have to continually increase yield in order to make things more profitable for the growers.� But the fungus left behind by corn See Wheat, Page 14
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