In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing ...

Researchers from Aarhus University have contributed to creating new knowledge about resistance to yellow rust, which is a serious fungal disease in wheat. The results can have global importance. For ...

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 ...

Wheat is vulnerable. Among the most damaging diseases that affect wheat crops across the world are rusts. These parasites cannot grow without infecting a host plant, and are responsible for some of ...

Our previous research also identified that fungi can protect crop plants such as wheat, barley and oats from rust disease. Similar studies around the world have found fungi can also protect against ...

An international team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a gene that should protect commercially important wheat varieties from stripe rust, a ...

Aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases -- called stem rust and stripe rust -- have decimated up to 40 percent of farmers' wheat fields in recent harvests in North Africa, the Middle East, ...

Example of wheat rust. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. Scientists say they are making promising strides in their race against Ug99, a stem rust disease that, left unchecked, could wipe out 80 percent of ...

A virulent wheat stem rust that has already ravaged stocks in sub-Saharan Africa threatens Afghanistan’s crop as well, so in a joint effort with Egypt the United States has planted 150 tons of ...

There are now numerous reports of stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. With cool and rainy weather conditions in May, the development of stripe rust in Colorado wheat ...