SCIENTISTS have uncovered the origins of the world’s deadliest strain of cereal rust disease which poses a serious threat to global food security.
New research into wheat stem rust will be a valuable tool in the disease's management. Picture courtesy CSIRO.
Researchers from Australia's CSIRO, together with partners in the United States and South Africa have solved a 20-year-old mystery with findings published recently in ‘Nature Communications'.
An international research effort is under way to help protect wheat from rust diseases.
Russian wheat helping Aussie research
