UG99 wheat stem rust screening nursery, and farms near it, Njoro, Kenya. Project involving breeders and plant pathologists from U of MN, Cornell, USDA-ARS, and CIMMYT. Credit: University of Minnesota, David Hansen
Some 530 scientists from 77 wheat-producing nations gathered for the 8th International Wheat conference (8IWC) from June 1-4, 2010, in the historic city of St. Petersburg, Russia. The IWC is held every five years, the last conference taking place in La Plata, Argentina, in 2005.The famous Vavilov Institute—one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of germplasm—hosted the conference. “Every major wheat-producing country was represented and there was a strong private sector presence,” said Hans Braun, director, CIMMYT Global Wheat Program. “This really showed that wheat is back on the research agenda.”
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2010 Technical Workshop was held just prior to the IWC. 282 leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas gathered for two days in St. Petersburg to address the threat of four new mutations of Ug99 wheat stem rust which are virulent against two important stem rust-resistance genes—SR24 and SR36—used widely in the world’s wheat breeding programs.
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Panel members: Mahmood Osmanzai (CIMMYT-Afghanistan), Mostafa Azab (Agricultural Research Center - Egypt), Bedada Girma (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research), and Peter Njau (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute)
This course, developed by CIMMYT and KARI-Njoro, was designed to train National Programs' pathologists and breeders score for stem rust infection occurrence in wheat....
Wheat is the primary staple cereal crop throughout the CWANA region, grown on over 50 million hectares. The region has the highest per capita consumption of wheat in the world. Wheat rusts are the main economically damaging diseases of wheat, with periodic epidemics recorded in recent decades in the CWANA region. The breakdown of resistance gene Yr9 in the 1980’s resulted in damaging stripe or yellow rust epidemics in several countries in East Africa, the Near East and West/South Asia, in which cultivars carrying this gene had come to dominate....
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