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ECHO (see my Blogroll)
http://www.echotech.org/mambo/
CIMMYT ICARDA news release
http://www.cimmyt.org/ | http://www.icarda.org/
Dangerous wheat disease jumps Red Sea
Devastating fungal pathogen spreads from eastern
Africa to Yemen, following path scientists predicted.
EL BATAN, Mexico and ALEPPO, Syria, –16 Jan 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A new form of stem rust, a virulent wheat disease, has jumped from eastern Africa and is now infecting wheat in Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula. Researchers with the Global Rust Initiative (GRI) and the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) have confirmed conclusively the existence of the disease in Yemen. There is also evidence that the disease has spread into Sudan but more tests are needed to confirm the finding. Until this discovery, this new strain of stem rust, known as Ug99, had only been seen in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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