Posts Tagged ‘wheat rust’
A fungus has been deemed interesting and scary enough to grace the pages of Wired magazine along side Google’s search algorithm, the future of money, and a retrospective of the dotcom boom and bust. Way to go stem rust Ug99! Er…, make that “Oh drat. Starvation. That’s bad.” Wheat Stem Rust on the Rampage Thanks [...]
Tags: phytopathology, Puccinia gramminis, stem rust, Ug99, wheat rust, Wired
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $26.8 million to fight an increasingly worrisome threat to the world’s wheat harvest. The Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project was founded to bring diverse resources to combat an emerging strain of Puccinia graminis (Basidiomycota) commonly called wheat stem rust. This new strain is [...]
Tags: phytopathology, wheat rust
