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University of Sydney: International scholarship student leads barley rust breakthrough

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A University of Sydney scholarship student, originally from rural Vietnam, has made a research breakthrough that could help protect crops from disease. As a PhD student, Dr Hoan Dinh found and defined the sequence of an important gene underlying leaf rust resistance in barley. Rust is a disease-causing fungus that afflicts various cereal crops worldwide, […]