Fighting A Worldwide Wheat Threat

Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 07:35 in Health & Medicine

Wheat stockpiles are at a 30-year low and production costs are rising, but what really scares wheat growers is the specter of Ug99, a new rust fungus to which very few of the currently grown varieties of wheat are resistant.

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