BEIJING (31 AUGUST 2012)—The world's top wheat experts today reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust ...

Using data submitted by farmers and scientists, creators of Rust-Tracker, a global cereal rust monitoring system, say they can monitor 42 million hectares of wheat in 27 developing countries in the ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The functional surveillance and monitoring network, the Global Cereal Rust Monitoring System ('Rust ...