USDA-ARS
The Agricultural Research Service is the USDA's chief scientific in-house research agency. Daily, ARS focuses on solutions to agricultural problems affecting America.
Virus Undercuts Fungus Attacks on Wheat
A naturally occurring virus co-discovered by ARS and university scientists may offer a way to undermine a costly fungal threat to small-grain crops.
USDA-ARS Scientists Find New Tool to Fight Major Wheat Disease
ARS has discovered a gene that can be used to develop varieties of wheat that will be more resistant to Fusarium Head Blight.