Other Plant Disease -- Egypt
Interview with David Hodson, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT):
"The original [Ug99] race has now grown to 13; it's a very closely related family of stem-rust races. The movement of the disease into Egypt was just confirmed. Using samples from 2014, 3 Ug99 races were identified. That event is potentially quite significant, not only for Egyptian wheat production, but for the potential of the disease to now spread into the Mediterranean basin.
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