Identification of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene promotes a durable solution for controlling yellow rust, a major threat to food security for millions of people, believes an international research ...

The recent discovery of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain in Nepal, published in the Plant Disease journal, has once again emphasized the need for vigilance to protect Nepal's third most important food ...

Four new mutations of Ug99, a strain of a deadly wheat pathogen known as stem rust, have overcome existing sources of genetic resistance developed to safeguard the world's wheat crop. Leading wheat ...

John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust. Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science ...

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, borne by wind beyond the handful of countries ...

Global average wheat yields grew by 2.95% per year from 1961 to 1990, but grew at less than a third that rate (0.85% per year) for 1990–2012 (ref. 1). Changes in how, where and when crops are grown ...