U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service scientists recently bred new disease-resistant sugarbeet lines using cutting-edge genome mapping technologies. By adapting those new genomic lines and genomic tools, plant breeders are now able to greatly improve the sugarbeet’s tolerance to disease.
Disease-resistant trait developed
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Biological Science Aid Elizabeth Hada stands in a sugarbeet field at Ft. Collins, Colorado.
A pile of recently harvested sugarbeets is displayed.
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