wheat rust
Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia
Nutrition, health and food security
Researchers found farmers who increased both the area growing resistant varieties and the number of wheat varieties grown per season saw the biggest yield increases.
Seed production innovations, conservation agriculture and partnerships are key for Africa’s food security
Nutrition, health and food security
Partner field days in Kenya presented sustainable solutions to crop threats and innovations in seed and agronomy.
New platform rapidly diagnoses wheat rust
Innovations
Source: World Grain (13 Aug 2019)
MARPLE diagnostic platform significantly reduces the time to identify strains, which previously took months.
Using the MARPLE kit to diagnose wheat rust in Ethiopia
Innovations
The mobile kit will allow Ethiopia to quickly identify wheat rust strains in 48 hours, instead of sending samples to labs abroad.
MARPLE team recognized for international impact
Innovations
Research team behind revolutionary field test for wheat disease wins prestigious BBSRC prize.
Ethiopia calls for continued collaboration to increase wheat production and meet nutritional and food security
Capacity development
CIMMYT and EIAR officially closed a wheat seed scaling project that benefitted 131,132 households.
CIMMYT trains early career scientists on wheat rust diagnosis and management
Capacity development
More than 200 scientists have increased their capacity at these annual trainings since CIMMYT started organizing them ten years ago.
Suitcase-sized lab speeds up wheat rust diagnosis
Innovations
MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) is a portable testing lab which could help speed-up the identification of devastating wheat rust diseases in Africa.
Deadly strain of wheat stem rust disease surfaces in Europe
Nutrition, health and food security
Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.
CIMMYT scientist cautions against new threats from wheat rust diseases
Innovations
Scientists are concerned over the proliferation of highly virulent fungal wheat diseases, including two new races of yellow rust and a new race of stem rust.
