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.

Watch the video... Stem rust epidemics have caused major famines over the centuries. Sharon Schmickle, an award-winning freelance journalist, examines the impact of the latest deadly strain of rust

Wheat is one of the world's most important crops, and it is threatened by new strains of a disease called stem rust. Through the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, wheat breeders and rust researchers are working together in a large, unique collaboration to develop new wheat varieties that can withstand these new strains.