Cereal rust diseases are caused by Puccinia spp. urediniospores that travel by air currents
to cause losses in wheat, oat, barley, and rye. In western Canada, inoculum can arrive from …

In the face of evolving agricultural practices and climate change, tools towards an integrated
biovigilance platform to combat crop diseases, spore sampling, DNA diagnostics and …

The recent emergence of highly virulent strains of the pathogen causing wheat stem rust has
been acknowledged as a threat to global food security. In infected wheat fields, vast …

Innovations in aerobiological and epidemiological modeling are enabling the development
of powerful techniques to infer connectivity networks for transboundary pathogens in ways …

Long range atmospheric transport is an important pathway for the spread of plant
pathogens, such as rust fungi which can devastate cereal crop health and food security …

Stem rust of wheat, caused by the airborne pathogen Puccinia graminis, is a re-emerging
crop disease representing a major concern to global food security. Potential long-distance …

The distributions of agricultural pests and diseases are already responding to climate
change, and the exposures seem to be increasing. Thus, robust strategies are required for …

Wheat rust diseases pose one of the greatest threats to global food security, including
subsistence farmers in Ethiopia. The fungal spores transmitting wheat rust are dispersed by …

Abstract Models have been used to describe the behavior of phenomena for centuries.
Beginning in the 1950s, models in the form of computer programs began to proliferate in a …

In recent years, severe wheat stem rust epidemics hit Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa's largest
wheat-producing country. These were caused by race TKTTF (Digalu race) of the pathogen …