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August 30, 2010
BGRI 2011 Technical Workshop
The 2011 BGRI Technical Workshop will be held June 13-16, 2011, in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL), and the University of Minnesota, Borlaug’s alma mater and the place of Stakman’s classic work on stem rust. ...
 | Last Update by Anna Garber | August 26, 2010 | 5:27 PM
Last Update at 2:14:54 PM EDT, August 30, 2010
July 9, 2010
BGRI Executive Committee
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Executive Committee (ExCo) ...
 | Last Update by Jenny Nelson | November 10, 2009 | 3:53 PM
Last Update at 11:56:55 AM EDT, July 9, 2010
June 28, 2010
2011 WIT Award and Mentor Award Call for Nominations
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 | Last Update by Jenny Nelson | June 28, 2010 | 4:24 PM
Last Update at 4:25:23 PM EDT, June 28, 2010
8th International Wheat Conference and BGRI 2010 Technical Workshop
Some 530 scientists from 77 wheat-producing nations gathered for the 8th International Wheat conference (8IWC) from June 1-4, 2010, in the historic city of St. Petersburg, Russia. The IWC is held every five years, the last conference taking place in La Plata, Argentina, in 2005.The famous Vavilov Institute—one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of germplasm—hosted the conference. “Every major wheat-producing country was represented and there was a strong private sector presence,” said Hans Braun, director, CIMMYT Global Wheat Program. “This really showed that wheat is back on the research agenda.” ...
 | Last Update by Jenny Nelson | November 10, 2009 | 2:57 PM | 33 Attachments
Last Update at 4:09:55 PM EDT, June 28, 2010
Presentations from the 8th International Wheat Conference, 1-4 June 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia
Please note that only those presentations for whom the authors signed a release are available. For those not available here, please contact the author directly.
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 | Last Update by Jenny Nelson | June 28, 2010 | 10:50 AM | 35 Attachments
Last Update at 1:37:17 PM EDT, June 28, 2010
June 8, 2010
What's happening live at the BGRI and IWC Workshops in St. Petersburg
The BGRI, ICARDA, and CIMMYT with updates live from St. Petersburg:

Photos from the BGRI Technical Workshop and the 8th International Wheat Conference ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | May 30, 2010 | 2:49 AM
Last Update at 3:37:13 PM EDT, June 8, 2010
May 30, 2010
Scientists Identify Virulent New Strains of Ug99 Stem Rust
Gathered in St. Petersburg, World’s Top Wheat Experts Report Progress toward Replacing Five Percent of Vulnerable Fields in Nations at Risk; Effort Called Vital for Preventing Hunger ST. PETERSBURG (26 May 2010)—Four new mutations of Ug99, a strain of a deadly wheat pathogen known as stem rust, have overcome existing sources of genetic resistance developed [...]
 | Last Update by John Bakum | May 30, 2010 | 2:47 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 3:01:18 AM EDT, May 30, 2010
May 27, 2010
8th IWC Program
Click here for the 8th International Wheat Conference Program
 | Last Update by John Bakum | January 27, 2010 | 9:18 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 3:10:27 AM EDT, May 27, 2010
April 23, 2010
BGRI 2010 Technical Workshop program

2010 BGRI Technical Workshop Tentative Program (draft Mar. 5, 2010)
May 30 & 31, St. Petersburg, Russia

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 | Last Update by John Bakum | January 26, 2010 | 2:26 PM
Last Update at 4:40:08 PM EDT, April 23, 2010
January 26, 2010
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
Known as the father of the Green Revolution, Norman Ernest Borlaug was born in 1914 on a farm near Cresco, Iowa. After completing his early education in his hometown, he went on to study forestry and plant pathology at the University of Minnesota, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees and completed his doctorate in 1942. After two years as a microbiologist with the DuPont de Nemours Foundation , he took on the challenge of leading the wheat improvement efforts of the Cooperative Mexican Agricultural Program, sponsored by the Mexican government and the Rockefeller Foundation. ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | November 10, 2009 | 2:35 PM | 2 Attachments
Last Update at 10:02:08 AM EST, January 26, 2010
December 10, 2009
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI), founded by the late Dr. N.E. Borlaug, replaces the Global Rust Initiative (GRI) established as an outcome of the May 2005 Expert Panel report (see Recommendation #10) of race Ug99 in Kenya and Ethiopia and the potential for impact in neighboring regions and beyond.

The BGRI has the overarching objective of systematically reducing the world’s vulnerability to stem, yellow, and leaf rusts of wheat and advocating/facilitating the evolution of a sustainable international system to contain the threat of wheat rusts and continue the enhancements in productivity required to withstand future global threats to wheat.
 Nairobi Global Rust Summit, September 2005

With the support and advice of Dr. Borlaug and the Rockefeller Foundation, CIMMYT called for what became known as a Global Rust Summit to be held in Nairobi at a time when stem rust would be abundant in the Njoro nurseries. Seventy-eight participants representing 18 countries and numerous donors assembled for a one day session in Nairobi, with a field visit on the following day.

Communication among the founding organizations led to adoption of a Charter for the BGRI (click here to see the Charter). The Charter calls for an Executive Committee, and a general membership comprised of all organizations wishing to participate.

Contact the BGRI
 | Last Update by John Bakum | November 10, 2009 | 2:17 PM | 2 Attachments
Last Update at 7:34:48 AM EST, December 10, 2009
November 10, 2009
Contact the BGRI
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Office of International Programs
34 Warren Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
bgri@cornell.edu
 | Last Update by John Bakum | November 10, 2009 | 2:29 PM
Last Update at 2:51:34 PM EST, November 10, 2009
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