ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 13, 2011 (ENS) – New and virulent forms of a fungus called stem rust that attacks wheat are spreading quickly across the world, borne by wind beyond the handful of countries ...

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 ...

Example of wheat rust. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. Scientists say they are making promising strides in their race against Ug99, a stem rust disease that, left unchecked, could wipe out 80 percent of ...

The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government ...

Aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases -- called stem rust and stripe rust -- have decimated up to 40 percent of farmers' wheat fields in recent harvests in North Africa, the Middle East, ...

As the Oklahoma wheat crop matures and starts to head out, disease, insect and drought pressure are becoming evident. Meriem Aoun, Oklahoma State University small grains pathologist, said that in ...

Stripe rust season is “generally over” for winter wheat, and has low potential to cause damage to spring wheat due to dry weather, USDA research plant pathologist Xianming Chen said. Fungicide ...

IT IS sometimes called the “polio of agriculture”: a terrifying but almost forgotten disease. Wheat rust is not just back after a 50-year absence, but spreading in new and scary forms. In some ways it ...