Plant breeders are making progress identifying tar spot-resistant corn hybrids.
AgReliant Genetics manager of product breeding Mike Popelka says the crop disease continues to spread since it was discovered in North America less than ten years ago.
“From our group we immediately started looking at our germplasm (and) what hybrids were in test in the pipeline, realized we had some really nice tolerance within our genetics, and have really promoted and pushed that.
