Growers should monitor susceptible wheat varieties and prepare management plans if infections increase across Wisconsin.

UC Davis plant scientists are breeding durum (pasta) and bread wheat varieties resistant to stripe rust fungus. Project scientist Joshua Hegarty in a test field with resistant and control plants.

More seed of winter wheat feed varieties with good resistance to yellow rust will be available this autumn after the ...

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 ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

Stripe rust may last the entire wheat season, longtime USDA research plant pathologist Xianming Chen says. “It’s a combination of the growth stage and weather conditions,” Chen told Capital Press of ...

Researchers have identified stem rust resistance in the wild cereal plant Aegilops sharonensis and successfully transferred the resistance gene into bread wheat. Stem rust is a significant disease in ...

Pests and diseases result in the loss of one-fifth of the global wheat harvest each year, which is enough to make around 290 billion loaves of bread. Resolving the persistent problem of the fungal ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Farmer Wynn Parkinson was inspecting his wheat field when he noticed an unusual yellow patch in the center of his field. “My first thought was to get in touch with ...

What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the ...