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 ...

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 ...