Researchers identify gene resistance

Updated October 15 2018 - 9:20am, first published July 12 2018 - 6:00am
 DPIRD senior research officer Michael Francki evaluating wheat trial as part of a SNB resistance research project at Northam.
DPIRD senior research officer Michael Francki evaluating wheat trial as part of a SNB resistance research project at Northam.

WHEAT researchers have discovered a combination of genes that provide resistance to the significant fungal disease Stagonospora nodorum blotch (SNB) in WA varieties.

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