Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stemrust.
当地的农民对小麦计划怀有敌意,因为1939年至1941年间小麦由于茎锈病而严重减产。
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At first neither he nor Borlaug's International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Mexico could believe their eyes: stemrust could not have survived all those years.
Therefore, besides the resistance to the wheatstem maggot, the aims of wheat breeding include also the requirements of resistance or tolerance to alkaline soils and rust diseases.