Rain and some warmer days in the second week of March have encouraged an explosion of yellow rust. Unsurprisingly, Oakley is the main culprit but numerous other varieties, especially in later drilled ...

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Wheat growers face a tougher battle against yellow rust this spring due to many races of the disease being suspected within crops and a key rust fungicide being banned. Crop experts say that there are ...

With reports of rapid yellow rust development in some winter wheat crops, it is important to understand the role varietal genetics plays in the fightback. In light of this, AHDB’s agronomy team ...

Stem rust, also known as black rust, is even more damaging than stripe (or yellow) rust which has wiped out about 40 per cent of harvests in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Chandigarh: For the ongoing Rabi season, the area under wheat recorded a marginal dip at 34.75 lakh hectares compared to 34.90 lakh hectares in 2023 and 35.26 lakh hectares the year before that. After ...

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Four new mutations of Ug99, a strain of a deadly wheat pathogen known as stem rust, have overcome existing sources of genetic resistance developed to safeguard the world's wheat crop. Leading wheat ...

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 ...