Seed treatments could be a valuable first line of defence against yellow rust next year, but not as a replacement for a well-timed four-spray programme, according to advisers. Download a full list of ...

IN the Central Provinces and Berar and other regions in peninsular India, recurrent damage is caused to the wheat crop by black stem rust, Puccinia graminis tritici. In some years, as in 1946, the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Internatio­nal Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (IMWIC) has advised agricultural scientists in Sindh to develop new wheat seeds which are resistant to yellow rust — a new strain which ...