Thursday, December 01, 2005

New Soybean Aphid Resistance Found

From Checkbiotech.org - Research discovers aphid resistance in Chinese soybean cultivars
The soybean aphid is a major pest of the crop, and is difficult to control and remedy. There are currently no commercial cultivars with resistance to the pest, but headway has been made in the latest issue of Crop Science, where Clarice Mensah of Michigan State University, and colleagues, document the “Resistance to Soybean Aphid in Early Maturing Soybean Germplasm.”
Link to the article is here

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