This section is devoted to the study of the Pathogen. Information and tools regarding the Rust pathogen, including surveillance tips and instruction, and video presentations from relevant workshops
Wheat is the primary staple cereal crop throughout the CWANA region, grown on over 50 million hectares. The region has the highest per capita consumption of wheat in the world. Wheat rusts are the main economically damaging diseases of wheat, with periodic epidemics recorded in recent decades in the CWANA region. The breakdown of resistance gene Yr9 in the 1980’s resulted in damaging ...
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative is pleased to offer for download Wheat Rusts: An Atlas of Resistance Genes by Robert McIntosh, Colin Wellings, and Robert Park.
SYRIA: Yellow wheat rust hits supplies 19 August 2010 - IRIN Farmers in Syria already hit by a three-year drought are now experiencing a yellow wheat rust outbreak, which has caused widespread crop losses as well as shrivelled seeds...
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