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ARS: Nursery is new tool in fight against Ug99 wheat stem rust
26 February 2010 - AgProfessional.com
The first Winter Wheat Stem Rust Resistance Nursery, a key tool in the fight against the rust strain Ug99, has been established by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and international cooperators... |
Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation
22 February 2010 - Wired
As they queue to fill water jugs from a rusty communal tap, the women of Njoro can’t help but gawk at the odd scene across the road. In a wheat field ringed by barbed wire, a dozen men wearing white polyethylene jumpsuits stand in a tight huddle, eyes fixed on the green-and-amber stalks that graze their knees. They chat in foreign tongues — Urdu, Farsi, Chinese — that are rarely heard here amid the acacia trees and donkey carts of Kenya’s Rift Valley. The men’s hazmat-style safety gear suggests they might be hunting down one of the infamous viruses that flourish in this part of the world — Ebola, perhaps, or Marburg. |
Armed and Dangerous
11 February 2010 - Science AAAS
Fifty years ago, stem rust led to the resistant wheat varieties that fueled the Green Revolution—leading many farmers to believe they were done with Puccinia graminis. But in 1998, a dangerous new strain named Ug99 appeared in Uganda... |
Wheat Groups Advocate Public/Private Collaboration on Variety Development
09 February 2010 - USAgNet.com
The nation's leading wheat grower organizations have adopted policy that advocates cooperation between land-grant universities and private companies, in order to develop improved wheat varieties. |
Wheat industry tries to move new varieties along
08 February 2010 - KNEB (Nebraska, USA)
The nation's leading wheat grower organizations have adopted policy that advocates cooperation between land-grant universities and private companies, in order to develop improved wheat varieties... |
Getting rust out of Africa
07 February 2010 - Weekly Times Now (Australia)
AUSTRALIA'S leading cereal rust authority has won a $480,000 grant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates to develop and train east African scientists in disease control... |
NAWG Meetings Focus on Ug99, Pests, Wheat Quality
03 February 2010 - Feed & Grain
Wheat researchers, growers, millers and bakers met with more than 60 Hill offices and USDA as part of the annual NAWG and National Wheat Improvement Committee (NWIC) fly-in... |
Grain Groups Call For Doubling Of Research Funds
01 February 2010 - Ag Canada
Four Canadian grain groups have issued a joint call for Ottawa to double its funding for agronomic research over the next 10 years... |
The real worth of wheat diversity
03 February 2010 - CIMMYT
What is diversity worth? That is the issue addressed by “Economic Analysis of Diversity in Modern Wheat,” a new collaborative publication that explores the economics, policies, and complications of modern wheat diversity. |
International Wheat and Barley Screening Collaboration Helps Uncover Stem Rust-Resistant Material
02 February 2010 - USDA - Agricultural Research Service
The Njoro Research Center of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has been a hotbed of activity these past few years. Since 2005, plant scientists from research organizations around the world, including the Agricultural Research Service, have been sending their countries’ top wheat cultivars and experimental lines to Njoro for testing against Ug99, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, the most virulent race of the stem rust fungus yet to emerge. |
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Experts warn of yellow rust, wind-borne diseases in wheat
20 January 2010 - NewKerala.com (India)
Agricultural scientists have warned the farmers against yellow rust, an infectious and wind borne disease of wheat crop, specially in the highlands. |
Deadline approaching for Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program
20 January 2010 - SeedQuest
Monsanto Company and Texas AgriLife Research, an agency of the Texas A&M University System, remind students who are interested in improving research and production in rice and wheat that the application deadline for Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program is February 1. |
Egypt's rust-resistant wheat ripe for testing
11 January 2010 - SeedQuest
Egypt is ready to test new varieties of wheat resistant to a lethal rust, with a series of pilot projects set to launch countrywide.... |
Global fight to preserve daily bread
09 January 2010 - Silobreaker
For over 10,000 years wheat farmers have been battling against stem rust - a plant killing fungus that can decimate crops. Since the 1950s, thanks to the development of resistant wheat varieties, there have been no major outbreaks.... |
Plant Disease Volume 90, Number 1
06 January 2010 - SeedQuest
Plant Disease Volume 90, Number 1 (APSNet) Selection of articles relevant to seed professionals... |
Widen food basket, says M.S. Swaminathan
05 January 2010 - The Hindu
Noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan has said that India should widen its food basket to include more varieties of food grain to reduce the vulnerability of its population to environment impacts caused by climate change... |
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Tom Fetch says it's not a question of it will come here, but when
23 December 2009 - Ag Canada
The question is “when” not “if ” Ug99, a potentially devastating wheat stem rust discovered in Uganda in 1999, will reach Canada, says Winnipeg-based Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada plant pathologist Tom Fetch... |
Keeper of the seed
28 December 2009 - Agweek
What scientist Bent Skovmand has done in service to humanity was not fully appreciated in his lifetime. It may not be so until the day comes when an old variety of wheat may be needed to save the worlds wheat crops from diseases such as Ug99 rust.... |
Egypt Plants New Wheat Strains To Fight Fungus
28 December 2009 - Planet ARK
Egypt, the world's top wheat importer, is introducing new wheat varieties resistant to a mutant form of stem rust, an airborne fungus with the ability to annihilate entire crops.... |
Australian experts hope for elevation of Sino-Australian relations
17 December 2009 - Global Times
Australian experts who have received "The friendship award", the highest form of award from the Chinese government, gathered here Thursday night hoping in unison for an elevation of Sino-Australian relations... |
GM Wheat is on its way
19 December 2009 - Guardian Unlimited
Five years after scrapping its trials, Monsanto calculates that the time is now ripe for GM wheat to make |
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