iaea.org: Responding to the Transboundary Threat of Wheat Black Stem Rust (Ug99)
Wheat farmers have battled plant-killing fungi since the grain was domesticated over 10,000 years ago. One deadly nemesis, wheat black stem rust, or Puccinia graminis, has been capable of spreading ...
iaea.org: Saving Harvests: How the IAEA is responding to the transboundary threat of wheat black stem rust UG99
Saving Harvests: How the IAEA is responding to the transboundary threat of wheat black stem rust UG99
Kansas wheat breaks dormancy and fields begin to green up, a Kansas State University plant disease expert is urging growers to keep a close eye on a familiar set of threats: wheat rusts. Wheat ...
Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, (ENS) – New and virulent forms of a fungus called stem rust that attacks wheat are spreading quickly across the world, borne by wind beyond the handful of countries ...
MSN: Reading the enemy: How genome science is reshaping the fight against wheat stem rust
Reading the enemy: How genome science is reshaping the fight against wheat stem rust
MIT Technology Review: This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases
In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing in an unfamiliar way. Stems weakened, plants collapsed, and fields that had ...