Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI)
Wheat researchers to gather for October virtual event
Environmental health and biodiversity
Source: World Grain (27 Aug 2020)
Experts from around the world will meet to discuss the most pressing challenges facing global wheat security.
Blast and rust forecast
Climate adaptation and mitigation
New project to deliver wheat disease warnings directly to farmers’ phones in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Crossing boundaries
Nutrition, health and food security
Looking at wheat diseases in times of the COVID-19 crisis.
Deadly strain of wheat stem rust disease surfaces in Europe
Nutrition, health and food security
Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.
CIMMYT scientist cautions against new threats from wheat rust diseases
Innovations
Scientists are concerned over the proliferation of highly virulent fungal wheat diseases, including two new races of yellow rust and a new race of stem rust.
Wheat rust poses food security risk for global poor, says DFID’s Priti Patel
Nutrition, health and food security
Wheat rust monitoring efforts are not only keeping the fast-spreading disease in check, but are deployed to manage other crop diseases, said a scientist at a scientific meeting in London.
Global wheat community discusses research, partnerships at Obregon pilgrimage
Nutrition, health and food security
For hundreds of international agricultural development experts, an annual gathering in northern Mexico provides a vital platform for sharing and debating the latest wheat breeding news and research.
Pakistan marks Borlaug’s 100th birthday with commemorative stamp
Pakistan’s National Philatelic Bureau issued a commemorative postage stamp to honor the 100th birthday, last 25 March, of late wheat scientist and Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug.