Other Plant Disease — United Kingdom
Farmers and scientists must prepare for the potential re-emergence of a crop pathogen, following the discovery of a single wheat plant infected with stem rust – the first confirmed case in the UK in over 60 years. Dr Diane Saunders and Dr Brande Wulff, John Innes Centre, led a global team [that] showed that the UK strain belongs to the Digalu race, which was responsible for a devastating outbreak of stem rust in Ethiopia in 2013, and smaller outbreaks in Sweden, Denmark and Germany [see
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