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A breakthrough in the study of rust-resistant wheat

South African wheat farmers are being rewarded for the levies they have been paying towards wheat research every year. Their recompense comes in the form of a major scientific breakthrough in the management of wheat rust diseases.

Pioneering research by CenGen, a molecular genetics laboratory in Worcester, Western Cape, in collaboration with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and the University of the Free State,

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