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South Africa
  Area Harvested (2010/2011): 550,000 HA
Beginning Stocks (2010/2011): 748,000 MT
Yield (2010/2011): 2.91 MT/HA
Figures from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
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 | Last Update by John Bakum | January 28, 2010 | 10:00 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 4:57:35 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
University of Free State
The University of the Free State is one of South Africa's oldest universities, and celebrated its centenary in 2004. The UFS is an important research centre.
Website: www.uovs.ac.za/ ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | March 25, 2010 | 11:37 AM
Last Update at 4:37:42 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
SENSAKO
SENSAKO, South Africa
Website: http://sensako.co.za/english.html ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | February 23, 2010 | 6:09 AM
Last Update at 4:35:57 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
ARC-Small Grain Institute
The ARC’s vision reflects its core business and celebrates its unique role,acknowledging its position as the principal agricultural research institution in South Africa. The vision highlights the need to harness ARC capabilities to ensure that it becomes an organization known for its excellence in its core area of business. This vision is underpinned by the ARC mission.
Website: www.arc.agric.za/home.asp?pid=1 ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | April 8, 2010 | 10:17 AM
Last Update at 4:33:20 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
David Marshall
Research Leader
USDA-ARS, USA
Email: David.Marshall@ars.usda.gov ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | June 11, 2009 | 4:18 PM | 3 Attachments
Last Update at 12:40:14 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
Rust in the News
Rust in the News ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | December 22, 2009 | 11:33 AM
Last Update at 12:36:48 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
2010 News Items
August 2010 ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | July 1, 2010 | 2:38 PM
Last Update at 12:34:15 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
August 2010 News Items
Significant Work Still Needed to Really Crack Wheat’s Genetic Code
31 August 2010 - International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
The International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium (IWGSC), an international consortium of wheat growers, public and private breeders and scientists, strongly disagrees with implications that the sequence reads made available by a UK team, led by Professor Neil Hall, represent in any way the sequence of the wheat genome or that this work is comparable to genome sequences for rice, maize, or soybean.
The Price of Wheat
27 August 2010 - New York Times
Agricultural experts say they’re not worried about the recent jump in wheat prices, caused largely by the drought in Russia and the ban on Russian wheat exports. The Department of Agriculture is predicting that world wheat production will reach the same level this year — 645 million metric tons — that helped bring prices down from their astonishing $13.50 a bushel peak in February 2008. At present, prices for December wheat are about $6.95 a bushel, down over 50 cents from a month ago, but up nearly 55 percent since early June...
Genome breakthrough heralds new dawn for agriculture
27 August 2010 - Independent (UK)
In a scientific tour-de-force that has been hailed as the most significant breakthrough in wheat production since the cereal crop was cultivated by the first farmers more than 10,000 years ago, scientists have decoded the genome of the wheat plant...
Cereal rust epidemic on its way to NSW
24 August 2010 - ABC Rural (Australia)
Leaf Rust, stem rust and stripe rust have been causing grain growers headaches for years now...
Stem Rust: In Crop Management
24 August 2010 - Grains Research Development Corporation (Australia)
This fact sheet provides specific information on the in-crop management of stem rust in wheat...
Scientists Mobilize to Protect Wheat from Mutating Stripe Rust
23 August 2010 - Suite101.com
Ug99 is getting most of the attention, but there is another very dangerous cereal killer on the prowl –Puccinia striiformis, more commonly known under the aliases of stripe rust or yellow rust...
SYRIA: Yellow wheat rust hits supplies
19 August 2010 - IRIN
Farmers in Syria already hit by a three-year drought are now experiencing a yellow wheat rust outbreak, which has caused widespread crop losses as well as shrivelled seeds...
India Doesn’t Share World’s Wheat Worries
12 August 2010 - Wall Street Journal
India is struggling with too much wheat while the rest of the world is anticipating a shortage. Rising global wheat prices triggered by the crippling drought in Russia and the nation’s export ban have sparked a world-wide scramble to secure wheat supplies and raised concerns there could be a new bout of food inflation. India is well insulated from the global wheat crisis because it produces more wheat than it consumes and it has a ban on exporting the grain...
India develops 22 wheat varieties resistant to Ug99 disease
10 August 2010 - Yahoo! India
India, the world's second biggest wheat producer, has developed 22 wheat varieties, which are resistant to the deadly Ug99 fungal disease. "During the course of our research we found that certain varieties developed by us were already resistant to this fungus...
IRAQ: Wheat rust infection fears
10 August 2010 - IRIN Middle East
More than a tenth of Iraq’s 2009-2010 wheat crop has been infected by a killer fungus, according to authorities. While the strain of wheat rust is not as virulent as the mutant Ug99, infection rates have climbed steeply since last year because of warmer weather and higher temperatures, said Hameed Mohammed Jawad, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s crops protection department...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | September 7, 2010 | 12:32 PM
Last Update at 12:33:17 PM EDT, September 7, 2010
September 2, 2010
Top of Home Page
Registration for 2011 BGRI Technical Workshop is now open
2011 Women in Triticum Award and Mentor Award: Call for Nominations
Wheat Rust featured in the Economist
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 | Last Update by John Bakum | September 2, 2010 | 2:59 PM | 4 Attachments
Last Update at 3:16:16 PM EDT, September 2, 2010
September 1, 2010
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 | April 28, 2010 | 10:57 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 2:48:33 PM EDT, September 1, 2010
August 30, 2010
BGRI 2011 Technical Workshop
The 2011 BGRI Technical Workshop will be held June 13-16, 2011, in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL), and the University of Minnesota, Borlaug’s alma mater and the place of Stakman’s classic work on stem rust. ...
 | Last Update by Anna Garber | August 26, 2010 | 5:27 PM
Last Update at 2:14:54 PM EDT, August 30, 2010
August 27, 2010
Step List for Sending material to Kenya
Forms Needed for sending material to Kenya ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 19, 2009 | 2:42 PM | 2 Attachments
Last Update at 2:28:44 PM EDT, August 27, 2010
Step List for Sending material to Ethiopia
Forms needed for sending material to Ethiopia ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 19, 2009 | 2:29 PM | 2 Attachments
Last Update at 2:27:15 PM EDT, August 27, 2010
Protocols for sending germplasm to Kenya/Ethiopia
1. Mechanics of Operation
2. Sending the Material
3. Seed Sending Instructions
4. What will happen on arrival of your material?
5. Logistics for collaborators visiting the site?
6. Fee-for-service
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 | Last Update by John Bakum | July 1, 2010 | 1:13 PM | 4 Attachments
Last Update at 2:25:43 PM EDT, August 27, 2010
East Africa Resources
Most recent screening data report

Dr. Sridhar Bhavani is now the International Focal Point for the East Africa Screening nurseries.
Email: s.bhavani@cgiar.org ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | July 1, 2010 | 11:58 AM | 6 Attachments
Last Update at 2:21:06 PM EDT, August 27, 2010
August 26, 2010
Kenya
  Area Harvested (2010/2011): 120,000 HA
Beginning Stocks (2010/2011): 451,000 MT
Yield (2010/2011): 1.88 MT/HA
Figures from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
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 | Last Update by John Bakum | January 28, 2010 | 7:29 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 10:51:14 AM EDT, August 26, 2010
August 25, 2010
Web Resources
Each of the links below will open an external website in your browser ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 25, 2010 | 4:04 PM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 4:48:25 PM EDT, August 25, 2010
Davinder Singh
Senior Scientist
Cereal Rust Lab, Australia
Email: dsingh@usyd.edu.au ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | April 23, 2009 | 2:14 PM
Last Update at 12:28:22 PM EDT, August 25, 2010
August 24, 2010
Kenya Survey Reports
Kenya Survey Map from Rust Spore, a Global Wheat Rust Monitoring System
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 24, 2010 | 4:09 PM
Last Update at 4:39:32 PM EDT, August 24, 2010
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
KARI envisions a vibrant commercially oriented agricultural sector, propelled by innovative technologies, knowledge and approaches that respond to demands and opportunities.
www.kari.org
Nairobi, Kenya ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | March 23, 2010 | 11:30 AM
Last Update at 3:56:22 PM EDT, August 24, 2010
Scientists Mobilize to Protect Wheat from Mutating Stripe Rust
Scientists Mobilize to Protect Wheat from Mutating Stripe Rust
23 August 2010 - Suite101.com
Ug99 is getting most of the attention, but there is another very dangerous cereal killer on the prowl –Puccinia striiformis, more commonly known under the aliases of stripe rust or yellow rust...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 23, 2010 | 9:07 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 11:58:31 AM EDT, August 24, 2010
Stem Rust: In Crop Management
Stem Rust: In Crop Management
24 August 2010 - Grains Research Development Corporation (Australia)
This fact sheet provides specific information on the in-crop management of stem rust in wheat...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | August 24, 2010 | 11:27 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 11:55:52 AM EDT, August 24, 2010
Colin Wellings
Senior Research Scientist
Plant Breeding Institute, Australia
Email: colinw@camden.usyd.edu.au ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | April 23, 2009 | 2:37 PM | 20 Attachments
Last Update at 11:41:11 AM EDT, August 24, 2010
August 23, 2010
Mogens Hovmoller
Senior scientist
Department of Integrated Pest Management
Aarhus University, Denmark
Email: Mogens.Hovmoller@agrsci.dk ...
 | Last Update by John Bakum | April 27, 2009 | 4:19 PM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 9:10:20 AM EDT, August 23, 2010
August 19, 2010
Syria
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 | Last Update by John Bakum | March 17, 2010 | 7:06 AM | 1 Attachment
Last Update at 3:37:03 PM EDT, August 19, 2010
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