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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

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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.
Presentations from the BGRI Workshop are below
Presentations from the 8IWC may be downloaded here
Please note that only those presentations for whom the authors signed a release are available. For those not available here, please contact the author directly.
Documents for download:
Live blog updates from the conferences:

Photos:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/8iwc/
Also see the wonderful photo slideshow created by Reza Haghparast!

Presentations:
May 30 (Day 1 of the BGRI Workshop)
May 31 (Day 2 of the BGRI Workshop)
CLICK HERE FOR PRESENTATIONS FROM THE 8IWC

Previous BGRI workshops:
BGRI 2009 Technical Workshop, 17-20 March 2009, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico
Stem Rust Scoring Course, Njoro, Kenya, 28 Sept-6 Oct 2009
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. ...
Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Research (IFPRI publication), released 12 Nov 2009
Watch the video ...
Serious Outbreaks of Wheat Stripe or Yellow Rust in Central and West Asia and North Africa – March/April 2010
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. ...
 
 | Last Update by John Bakum | November 10, 2009 | 3:49 PM
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