U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service researchers and their collaborators recently decoded a gene in wheat, labeled H13, that protects some varieties of the grain crop from Hessian fly larvae, whose appetite claims approximately $100 million’s worth of the annual U.S. wheat harvest.
Scientists find gene's 'playbook'
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A Hessian fly sits on wheat.
A field is infested with Hessian flies.
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