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Open position in bioinformatics aimed at understanding molecular mechanisms of virulence/avirulence in cereal rust fungi. For info see: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/345366

A Gown for U: University of Minnesota students saved local hospitals from running out of PPE. strib.mn/2SRfxnZ

Will we have “American” chestnuts roasting on an open fire again? Renewed hope with new technology washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home…

A mystery solved: Somatic fusion and a nucleus swap spawns deadly wheat stem rust pathogen strain Ug99 #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4146… nature.com

Graduate students tour the Norman Borlaug childhood farm on way to the World Food Prize

Happy Robigalia! This is the day when the ancient Romans held a festival on the via Claudia in Rome to appease the rust god from sending the rust scourge onto the crop

New successes in developing wheat lines with resistance gene cassettes

Wheat Lines From 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN Exhibit Exceptional Stem Rust Resistance in the Field scimex.org/newsfeed/wheat…

Now at John Innes Centre working on cloning resistance genes from wild barley using AgRenSeq: twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/re…

A more efficient protocol (Association Genetics Resistance Gene Enrichment Sequencing) for cloning not just one but potentially the entire complement of resistance genes in a given plant species was just published in Nature Biotechnology 37:139–143.

Great discussions on GMO crops @ Chicago Council on Science & Technology after screening of Food Evolution