The world's top wheat experts have reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat ...

After the recent attack of pink stem borer on wheat crops, the Punjab agriculture department has issued a new warning to farmers regarding the potential threat of yellow rust disease in wheat fields.

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Wheat growers face a tougher battle against yellow rust this spring due to many races of the disease being suspected within crops and a key rust fungicide being banned. Crop experts say that there are ...

New aggressive yellow rust strains pose such a threat to global wheat production that a Global Rust Reference Center has been set up by Aarhus University, Denmark, as part of the Borlaug Global Rust ...

With reports of rapid yellow rust development in some winter wheat crops, it is important to understand the role varietal genetics plays in the fightback. In light of this, AHDB’s agronomy team ...

Chandigarh: For the ongoing Rabi season, the area under wheat recorded a marginal dip at 34.75 lakh hectares compared to 34.90 lakh hectares in 2023 and 35.26 lakh hectares the year before that. After ...

Stem rust, also known as black rust, is even more damaging than stripe (or yellow) rust which has wiped out about 40 per cent of harvests in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Using data submitted by farmers and scientists, creators of Rust-Tracker, a global cereal rust monitoring system, say they can monitor 42 million hectares of wheat in 27 developing countries in the ...

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