When coffee
leaf rust threatened the industry, genetics was one of the key elements that researchers homed in on.
He said that rains wash
leaf rust, adding that branches of citrus trees had to face dryness attack during last year due to low irrigation.
Dr Brown, from Durham University's Department of Physics/ Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, said: "With hill farmers unable to afford fungicides, early detection of coffee
leaf rust and removal of infected trees is critical.
Dr Brown, from Durham University's Department of Physics/Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, said: "With hill farmers unable to afford fungicides, early detection of coffee
leaf rust and removal of infected trees is critical.
The aim of the three-year project is to investigate the molecular basis for the virulence of
leaf rust and other diseases towardPopulusspecies in order to address the challenge of engineering resistance against the pathogens.
Partial resistance to wheat
leaf rust in 18 spring wheat cultivars.
Understanding cereal rust diseases, particularly wheat stem rust and wheat
leaf rust, has driven his career.
Coffee producers have already felt the effects: Production in Tanzania, where 2.4 million people's jobs are in the coffee industry, is down 50 percent since the 1960s. In 2012, coffee
leaf rust destroyed more than 85 percent of some Guatemalan producers' coffee yields.
They were also medium-tall and late maturing ones, which were susceptible to septoria and
leaf rust under the natural and/or artificial epidemic conditions of Turkey, USA and Ukraine and stem rust under the natural and/or artificial epidemic conditions of Turkey and Kenya.
pesticides, Aphid attack was witnessed on wheat crop in some area while the
Leaf Rust disease traditionally called 'Kungi' was also observed in some other areas last year in Punjab.