The Heat Is On: WSU Food Engineer Works to Commercialize Radio Frequency Treatments for Insect Pest Control The irony probably wasn’t lost on Washington State University food engineer Juming Tang. Tang recently opened a bottle of lotus seeds to put in soup and smelled mold, a telltale sign that insect pests had already begun eating […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The Stripe Rust Alert website has been launched to inform wheat growers of stripe rust levels, and to present tools to help manage the fungus. Dr. Xianming Chen, research plant pathologist of USDA-ARS and adjunct professor at Washington State University, compiles the information from regional reports and his own field surveys. The […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Thanks in part to recent hot, dry weather, stripe rust has not been much in evidence in the Palouse, according to Xianming Chen, a U.S. Department of Agriculture plant pathologist at Washington State University, who tracks outbreaks of the disease. That’s good news for the region’s wheat growers, who have witnessed severe […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists have reported the worst outbreak of stripe rust in recent years in Northwest wheat fields and it is being found much earlier in the season than usual. Xianming Chen, USDA plant pathologist at Washington State University, says stripe rust is developing on susceptible winter wheat varieties in southeastern Washington and northeastern […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Wheat stripe rust is developing very rapidly on Zak and several other spring wheat varieties in Eastern Washington, according to Kim Kidwell, a spring wheat breeder at Washington State University and Xianming Chen, a plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. Kidwell said the fungal disease has been reported in the […]