Head scab affects wheat and other small grains and is most common in wheat crops planted after corn crops. Corn residue is a major source of the disease, which poses the biggest threat during high ...

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 ...

Our southern neighbors have started reporting multiple diseases in wheat, such as leaf and strip rust. We have yet to see many samples or reports here in Indiana. There are a number of resources are ...

BELHAVEN, N.C. (WNCT)– After a drop in temperatures and a mix of spring weather, crops in eastern North Carolina, specifically wheat, are experiencing some damage. Wheat stripe rust has appeared ...

SWABI: Leaf rust disease has attacked the wheat crop in most of the farming regions of Swabi, especially low-lying areas, due to an unexpectedly long rain spell and cold weather, farmers said here ...

Disease pressure in wheat is seen as moderate 1to low in the current dry weather, but these two diseases, as well as brown rust, eyespot and mildew, could develop quickly with a change in the weather.

Understanding rust resistance in bread wheat 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.

Close to half of the Illinois winter wheat crop is in poor or very poor condition after being hit by several plant diseases spread by the hot, humid conditions of late May.”Wheat farmers have ...

Several wheat varieties, such as Madsen, Bruehl and Cara, are highly resistant to stripe rust. With them, even in a severe rust year, farmers don’t need a fungicide, Chen said.