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Will Stem Rust Destroy the World's Wheat Crop
2008-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Race Ug99, or TTKSK, of fungus Puccinia graminis tritici, causing stem or black rust disease on wheat (Triticum aestivum), first identified in Uganda in 1998 has been recognized as a major threat to wheat production. Its spread in 2006 to Yemen and Sudan and further spread towards North Africa, Middle East and West-South Asia is predicted -aided by predominant wind currents and large areas of wheat varieties that...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 68b3330f-1795-59fd-86aa-bc5e88a3c182
- DOI
- 10.1016/s0065-2113(08)00205-8
