U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance. Stem rust occurs worldwide wherever wheat ...

Ugly Wheat Rust Variants Blow Around the World ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 13, 2011 (ENS) – New and virulent forms of a fungus called stem rust that attacks wheat are spreading quickly across the world, ...

Expertise in viruses and high security containment brought Rothamsted Research into a multinational team that has just won a major battle in the war against a genetically versatile fungal pathogen ...

Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture ...

If you like eating hotcakes or bread (or my own personal favorite, huckleberry muffins), you might want to pay attention to a problem that’s looming over wheat worldwide. It’s a new type of “stem rust ...

A team of scientists has identified a promising resistance gene that could help fight a devastating fungus called stem rust, which attacks wheat crops and threatens global food security. The discovery ...

Scientists are close to producing new wheat varieties resistant to a deadly wind-borne disease that threatens to destroy crops around the world, fuel food price hikes and potentially lead to worsening ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. NJORO, 13 October 2011 (IRIN) - There is renewed hope for wheat farming in Kenya following the ...

Eighteen participating member countries will have something to smile about. Characterization of the resistance will be by morphology as well as through molecular marker assisted methods. The breeders ...

Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 103, No. 1 (February 2021), pp. 197-205 (9 pages) Under appropriate environmental conditions, stem rust (caused by Puccinia graminis Pers.: Pers. f. sp. tritici) is a ...