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Information on recently released wheat varieties is included in the following table: Variety Name Country Year Pedigree / Cross Origin Origin Name Stem Rust Reaction Ug99 Resistance Wheat Type Kenya Tae KENYA 2012 BABAX/LR42//BABAX*2/3/TUKURU KARI / CIMMYT Spring Bread Wheat … Continue reading
Information on recently released wheat varieties is included on the following table: Variety Name Country Year Pedigree / Cross Origin Origin Name Stem Rust Reaction Ug99 Resistance Wheat Type Hidase Ethiopia 2012 YANAC/3/PRL/SARA//TSI/VEE#5/4/CROC-1/AE.SQUAROSA(224)//OPATTA EIAR/CIMMYT ETBW 5795 Spring Bread Wheat Ogolcho … Continue reading
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During 2013 (Jan-Sept.) staff from KARI, Njoro, led by Ruth Wanyera, carried out extensive annual rust surveys throughout the Kenyan wheat growing areas. A total of 333 fields were surveyed for rusts. stem rust continues to be the predominant disease … Continue reading
Breeding for rust resistance in East Africa is moving forward at a rapid pace. National research programs in both Ethiopia and Kenya have recently announced the formal release of several new rust resistant varieties in both countries. The Ethiopian Institute … Continue reading
Favourable weather conditions for stripe rust are occurring across North Africa to South Asia. Cool, wet conditions across many parts of the region are producing a conducive environment for disease outbreaks. Aggressive races with virulence to Yr27 are known to … Continue reading
Wheat stripe rust COMMON NAME: Stripe rust, yellow rust SCIENTIFIC NAME: Puccinia striiformis Westend. DISTRIBUTION: Generally throughout wheat production areas at high elevations and in the northern and southern areas of temperate regions. YIELD LOSS: Losses of 40 percent can … Continue reading
Wheat leaf rust (click for more leaf rust images) Common Name: Leaf rust, brown rust. Scientific Name: Puccinia triticina (= P. recondita Roberge ex Desmaz. f. sp. tritici.) Distribution: Occurs worldwide wherever wheat is grown. It is most important … Continue reading
Wheat stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) is historically the most damaging disease of wheat. The disease has the capacity to turn a healthy looking crop, only weeks away from harvest, into nothing more than a tangle of black … Continue reading