Friday, March 12, 2010

UG99 Cereal Crop Rust - serious potential threat to global cereal food supplies


Author documents fight to preserve food production

Agri News - Janet Kubat Willette - ‎Mar 11, 2010‎
That's what scientists are doing now in an effort to beat Ug99, a new strain of rust that threatens the world's wheat supply. The rust was first seen in a ...

Wheat rust 'threatens security in Pakistan'

VSO International - John Curtis - ‎Mar 8, 2010‎
The disease is known as Ug99 and experts say it will not be long before it arrives in the country. David Hodson, of the United Nations (UN) Food and ...

PAKISTAN: Wheat rust threat rising

IRINnews.org - ‎Mar 7, 2010‎
Known as Ug99, the disease could potentially decimate the country's highly vulnerable wheat crop and cause a huge food security problem. ...

New tool to fight against the rust strain Ug99

Teatro Naturale - ‎Feb 28, 2010‎
Ug99, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, is the most virulent race of stem rust fungus yet to emerge. First discovered in Uganda in 1999, the fungus has ...

Start Hoarding Wonder Bread

Atlantic Online (blog) - Graeme Wood - ‎Feb 27, 2010‎
What's more, Ug99 could easily make the transoceanic leap to the United States. All it would take is for a single spore, barely bigger than a red blood cell ...

WSU professor elected fellow of American Phytopathological Society

WSU Today - ‎Feb 22, 2010‎
In recognition of his expertise on wheat diseases, Murray was invited to chair the committee developing the US recovery plan for wheat stem rust race Ug99 ...

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