Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
Growers are being urged to check wheat crops for yellow rust infections even if they are growing a variety with a high resistance rating, following concerns that a new race of the disease is being seen in the UK. Across the country farmers are seeing unprecedented levels of yellow rust, especially in later sown winter wheat crops.
"We think that this level of infection is due to either a mutation of the current yellow rust race or a completely new race of the disease being present in the
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7206768&promed&0
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