A naturally occurring virus recently co-discovered by U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and university scientists may offer a way to undermine a costly fungal threat to wheat, barley and other small-grain crops.
Virus undercuts fungus attacks on wheat
A "mycovirus" could help stop the Fusarium head blight fungus from contaminating wheat grains and giving them a ghastly bleached appearance, shown at right.
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