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Western Farm Press’ staff reported on a new strain of Stripe Rust in durum wheat that has permeated Mexican wheat fields and is worrying academics in California. Researchers are urging California wheat farms to be on lookout for the disease and send samples in to be tested if they find any.
In a paper for Kansas State’s Plant Pathology Department, Erick De Wolf, plant pathologist, describes what the disease looks like.
“Stripe rust typically produces yellow or orange blister-like lesions that are arranged in stripes. The disease is most common on leaves but also can affect glumes and awns of some varieties,” De Wolf said in the paper.
