As the world’s population continues to grow, so does its appetite for cereal grains, which include such dietary staples as wheat. This growing demand has driven agricultural scientists to develop ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. A new race of the virulent cereal black stem rust disease ...

Black stem rust (Ug99) Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici (Ug99) is a serious disease of wheat and barley. While wheat in the United States is resistant to most strains of black stem rust, it is not ...

The disease affects cereals, especially wheat. It’s caused by a fungus called Puccinia graminis, which infects crops via spores that are very hardy and can travel long distances in the wind. It’s not ...

THE classical struggle of the United States Department of Agriculture against the black rust disease (Puccinia graminis) of small grains, forms the subject of a leaflet (No. 1, Revised 1939) entitled ...

ALEPPO, SYRIA (11 September 2009)—Wheat experts from 26 countries warn that rapidly-moving, wind-borne transboundary wheat diseases continue to threaten food security and wheat genetic diversity ...

In the Imperial Valley of California last week, twelve acres of assorted wheat plants were growing in the hot desert sun. Department of Agriculture scientists, tending them as carefully as premature ...

At the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, the effect of ultra-violet light on the development of the rust organism has been studied by me. As a result of certain experiments, evidence was ...

Eighteen participating member countries will have something to smile about. Characterization of the resistance will be by morphology as well as through molecular marker assisted methods. The breeders ...