Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
Wheat stem rust caused by the fungus _Puccinia graminis_ f.sp. _tritici_ is a notorious disease of wheat and barley. In western Europe, following many decades of absence the disease started to re-emerge in 2013 with sporadic outbreaks reported in Germany [ProMED-mail post http://bit.ly/2Ithnq7], Sweden, Denmark, [and] a single [infected] wheat plant in the UK. These outbreaks were seen as an early warning of a potential resurgence. A much larger outbreak was recorded in
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6714735&promed&0
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