{"id":888,"date":"2017-11-14T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=888"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:01:18","slug":"kenyan-scientists-find-new-striga-resistance-genes-wild-sorghum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/11\/14\/kenyan-scientists-find-new-striga-resistance-genes-wild-sorghum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan scientists find new Striga resistance genes in wild sorghum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">Keywords:\u00a0Kenyan, Striga resistance genes, Sorghum<\/div>\n<div id=\"detailbox\" class=\"post-content\">Wild sorghum will soon provide a reservoir for resistance genes against Striga. A research team is lead by Dr. Steven Runo of the Plant Transformation Laboratory (PTL) at Kenyatta University and Professor Michael Timko of University of Virginia. They has identified three wild sorghum accessions resistant to Striga hermonthica (witchweed). That is a parasitic plant devastating cereal production in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Striga is a growing pandemic in Africa and Asia. It has the ability to destroy a crop with up to a 100% yield loss. Today, 300 million farmers from over 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa incur losses in excess of US$7 billion annually due to Striga infestation. Covering over 100 million hectares, the weed has particularly established host in key regional staple crops maize, sorghum, millet, and upland rice, greatly undermining the efforts to attain food security and economic growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">&#8220;Witchweed literally sucks the life out of its host by siphoning out water and nutrients,&#8221; says Dr. Runo. &#8220;What remains is a stunted, discolored host and inevitable death of the entire crop,&#8221; he adds. In a regional collaborative research published in Frontiers in Plant Science, the team report having found potential sources of mechanical and biochemical barriers to Striga infection that could be employed in genetic improvement of cultivated sorghum. Wild sorghum immune to Striga infestation coexists with the parasite in uncultivated lands in northeastern Africa,&#8221; explains Dr. Runo. &#8220;This potential offers an opportunity to pinpoint key resistance genes in wild sorghum. The genes can be stacked in farmer preferred varieties,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">This study provides a potential to increase the genetic basis of cultivated sorghum with wide-reaching implications for Striga control in other cereal crops by pyramiding multiple resistance genes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><b>Source:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>ISAAA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords:\u00a0Kenyan, Striga resistance genes, Sorghum Wild sorghum will soon provide a reservoir for resistance genes against Striga. A research team is lead by Dr. Steven Runo of the Plant Transformation Laboratory (PTL) at Kenyatta University and Professor Michael Timko of University of Virginia. They has identified three wild sorghum accessions resistant to Striga hermonthica (witchweed).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/11\/14\/kenyan-scientists-find-new-striga-resistance-genes-wild-sorghum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenyan scientists find new Striga resistance genes in wild sorghum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenyan scientists find new Striga resistance genes in wild sorghum - agrinoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/11\/14\/kenyan-scientists-find-new-striga-resistance-genes-wild-sorghum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenyan scientists find new Striga resistance genes in wild sorghum - agrinoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Keywords:\u00a0Kenyan, Striga resistance genes, Sorghum Wild sorghum will soon provide a reservoir for resistance genes against Striga. 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