An international team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a gene that should protect commercially important wheat varieties from stripe rust, a ...

Wheat makes up 20% of all calories consumed worldwide. Which means one fifth of the global food supply is threatened by a ...

A new study of wheat rust—a fungal disease that can harm wheat crops—identifies previously unknown long-term trends and hotspots for wheat rust outbreaks in Ethiopia. A team of modelers from the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The same rain that has caused rivers to flood and roads to close in recent weeks also has created a wheat rust problem for northeastern Colorado farmers.

image: Stripe rust is one of the most destructive wheat diseases in the world, especially in the United States. While the disease can be controlled by chemicals, those may be harmful to humans, ...

A team of scientists has identified a promising resistance gene that could help fight a devastating fungus called stem rust, which attacks wheat crops and threatens global food security. The discovery ...

Researchers from Aarhus University have contributed to creating new knowledge about resistance to yellow rust, which is a serious fungal disease in wheat. The results can have global importance. For ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. When storybook character Alice stepped through the looking glass, the Red Queen encouraged ...

The world's top wheat experts have reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat ...

Over the past few weeks farmers have taken major hits, not only financially, but also when it comes to the weather. The week of April 13 to 17 saw another round of cold temperatures that have ...

Approximately 88 percent of wheat production is susceptible to yellow rust. Researchers have new results regarding the fungus, which evolves quickly to produce new, virulent strains. Researchers from ...