Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
New studies by scientists in collaboration with FAO show the emergence of new races of both yellow and stem rusts in 2016 in Europe, Africa and Central Asia, [with the] Mediterranean [region] particularly affected. At the same time, existing rust races have spread to new countries.
“These aggressive races have emerged [while] we’re working to help countries combat the existing ones, so we have to be swift and thorough in the way we approach this,” said FAO’s Fazil Dusunceli. “Preliminary
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