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Inheritance Studies In Stem Rust Of Wheat, Sayed Bad Shah
Inheritance Studies In Stem Rust Of Wheat, Sayed Bad Shah
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Wheat is an important food crop of the world, especially in Soviet Russia, U.S.A., China, India and Pakistan. Over one billion bushels of wheat are produced annually in U.S.A. The total area under wheat production in Pakistan during 1947-48 was 10 million acres with an average yield of 12 bushels per acre.
The stem rust disease has been known for along time to be destructive to grain crops, even centuries before the Christian era. Rust is of major importance in both the U.S. and Pakistan. Jethro Tull recorded rust in England in 1725. In 1916, rust was serious over the …