Top wheat experts call for scaling up efforts to combat Ug99 and other wheat rusts
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 21:49
in Earth & Climate
ALEPPO, SYRIA (11 September 2009) -- Wheat experts from 26 countries warn that rapidly-moving, wind-borne transboundary wheat diseases continue to threaten food security and wheat genetic diversity worldwide -- particularly in the ancient breadbasket stretching from the Middle East to India -- as they vowed new action to isolate and interrupt the steady march of dangerous wheat rust disease