ARS Releases First Hard Winter Wheat Varieties for Eastern U.S. Production ARS has released the first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States.  October 29, 2009. Photos courtesy of David Marshall, ARS.
	In Kenya, Dr. David Marshall (above) examines wheat for signs of the stem rust fungus (right).
	ARS scientists are evaluating U.S. wheat lines for rust resistance in hopes of giving U.S. wheat and barley breeders a head start towards protecting new varieties from Ug99, a deadly wheat stem rust in eastern Africa. Collectively Facing an Ugly Rust See March 2009Agricultural Research magazine			ARS scientists share 2008 Secretary's 61 st  Honor Award for wheat disease research. Dr. David Marshall and Dr. Gina Brown-Guedira with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS) and N.C. State’s Crop Science and Plant Pathology departments, are examining wheat grown each year in Kenya in hopes of developing varieties with resistance to a virulent form of wheat stem rust.

ARS scientists share 2008 Secretary's 61 ^stHonor Award for wheat disease research.

On September 23, it was announced that the "USDA-ARS Ug99 Team to Combat New, Virulent Wheat and Barley Stem Rusts" has been awarded a 2008 USDA Secretary's Honor Award.   The award recognizes the team's "rapid mobilization of research expertise and resources to assess vulnerability to Ug99 African wheat stem rust, resulting in early deployment of genetic resources to protect the nation's grain supply."   Research plant pathologist Yue Jin, ARS Cereal Disease Research Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, and research leader David Marshall, ARS Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh, NC, represented the group at the awards ceremony on October 22, 2008 in Washington, DC.   The Honor Awards are the most prestigious awards given by USDA.

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