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Africa: Breakthrough in Fight Against Wheat Fungus

Experts are reporting a breakthrough in their ability to track strains of a devastating, rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat fields in East Africa.
David Gough/IRIN

Wheat

  • South Africa:   Another Strain of Deadly Wheat Fungus

    UNIRIN, 3 September 2012

    As the world's supply of staple grains grows tight, scientists are learning about the discovery in South Africa of yet another deadly variant of Ug99 stem rust, a virulent fungal… Read more »

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