Fifty years ago, a fungus called stem rust was a major threat to the world food supply. But scientists came up with new wheat varieties that kept the disease in check. Now, a new variety of rust has ...

Few can claim that their work affects millions of lives. For researchers at the Cereal Disease Laboratory, that figure might be an underestimate. CDL Director Martin Carson and his colleagues are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

EL BATAN, Mexico and ALEPPO, Syria, -- 16 Jan 2007 -- A new form of stem rust, a virulent wheat disease, has jumped from eastern Africa and is now infecting wheat in Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula.

Five years after the launch of a global effort to protect the world's most important food crop from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust, scientists say they are close to producing ...

“These are the first genes cloned that resist the Ug99 stem rust race that is threatening wheat crops worldwide,” said Bikram Gill, director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center at Kansas State ...

Eva Stukenbrock is a professor and head of the Environmental Genomics group at Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, and fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

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 ...