The DRRW in association with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research conducted its first hands-on-capacity building program on wheat rust surveillance and monitoring for SAARC countries during February 25 through March 14, 2010, in India.

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FAO's Wheat Rust Disease Global Programme - Activity Updates 2009

In response to the threat posed by new races of wheat rusts, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has established the Wheat Rust Disease Global Programme (WRDGP) to contribute to global food security through the prevention and management of wheat rust diseases and the enhancement of wheat productivity. Within this programme, FAO is called upon to coordinate global action in virtue of its status as a neutral forum and through its linkages with rural communities, governments, regional bodies, national and international agricultural research and development institutions and the donor community. The WRDGP is implemented in close collaboration with the BGRI partners to foster cooperation and information sharing amongst the various national stakeholders and the international organisations concerned with wheat rusts. It presently supports 32[1] wheat-producing countries to enhance their preparedness to prevent and manage the spread of emerging virulent strains of wheat rust diseases. The focus is on capacity building in five thrust areas: (i) national policy for preparedness and contingency planning; (ii) surveillance and early warning systems, including virulence tracking; (iii) fast-track national varietal registration programmes for the release of resistant wheat varieties; (iv) rapid seed multiplication and distribution of quality seeds of resistant varieties; and (v) farm-level wheat rust management through participatory farmer training to reduce risk and improve yields under local farming conditions. ...

Nov/Dec 2009: ICARDA hosts training courses on rust race analysis and seedling assessment of wheat rusts

ICARDA organized two training courses in November and December of 2009 covering rust race analysis and seedling assessment of wheat rusts. There were two course components that allowed: a) in-depth learning on wheat rust race analysis targeting research support staff already involved on race analysis research program in their respective laboratories or are prepared to launch a race analysis program, and b) rapid assessment of wheat rusts at seedling growth stage to eventually conduct seedling test of breeding materials and/or testing of the diagnostic short set of stem rust resistance genes (Sr2, Sr24, Sr31, Sr36, Sr38, Morocco and two commercial cultivars known as sources of Sr31) to detect Ug99 as called “QuickSet”. ...

2011 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Award for early-career women wheat researchers

The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the second annual Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Award for early career women researchers. ...

Joint Congress of the Hard Winter Wheat Workers Workshop and the National Wheat Genomics Workshop, 7-10 March 2010

Preliminary programs for the Joint Congress of the Hard Winter Wheat Workers Workshop and the National Wheat Genomics Workshop, March 7-10, 2010, at University of Nebraska-Lincoln can be found at http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG2/calendar.shtml. All oral presentations are by invitation. Contributed papers are welcomed as posters. Guidelines for poster presentations also are attached. For registration information, please visit: http://conferences.unl.edu/wheat/.

For more information, contact:
Robert Graybosch, PhD
Research Geneticist
USDA-ARS
314 Biochemistry Hall, East Campus
UNL, Lincoln, NE 68583
402-472-1563 (office)
402-613-1950 (mobile)

Stem Rust Scoring Course, Njoro, Kenya, 28 Sept-6 Oct 2009

This course, developed by CIMMYT and KARI-Njoro, was designed to train National Programs' pathologists and breeders score for stem rust infection occurrence in wheat. ...

Hands-On Training Program in Wheat Improvement and Pathology, CIMMYT Mexico, 15 Feb-14 May 2010

15 February - 14 May 2010, at CIMMYT El Batan and Cd. Obregon. Download the PDF announcement, or see below for more information. ...

Race typing and other protocols

Race Sampling and Collection A presentation by Zak Pretorius ...

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