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Against the lizard's belly, the rust's soothing friction offers an illusion of heat, and the lizard's hide goes from the color of a new leaf to the color of a dead one.
The World We Live In Eisenberg, Deborah 2009
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"You can tell it's just been handled by the way the rust's rubbed off."
The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post
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The wheat is done blooming and rust's on the sickle,
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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Rather than look for a single "silver bullet" resistant wheat gene, one a sudden fungal mutation might overcome, they seek arrays of traits in wheat plants that complicate the rust's development, by killing wheat cells near the spore, for example, to stall its spread.
`Staff of life' wavers under weight of humanity - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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Rather than look for a single "silver bullet" resistant wheat gene, one a sudden fungal mutation might overcome, they seek arrays of traits in wheat plants that complicate the rust's development, by killing wheat cells near the spore, for example, to stall its spread.
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WHEAT researchers from around the world are working to find a way to slow, or shut down, UG99 stem rust's terrible potential.
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Researchers from around the world are working to find a way to slow, or shut down, the rust's terrible potential.
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Rather than look for a single "silver bullet" resistant wheat gene, one a sudden fungal mutation might overcome, they seek arrays of traits in wheat plants that complicate the rust's development, by killing wheat cells near the spore, for example, to stall its spread.
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WHEAT researchers from around the world are working to find a way to slow, or shut down, UG99 stem rust's terrible potential.
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Researchers from around the world are working to find a way to slow, or shut down, the rust's terrible potential.
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