BGRI Newsletter October 2021

October 2021

BGRI 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop - This week!

Three Days. Three Sessions.

Wednesday, Oct. 6

Keynote: How can epidemiological modelling help prevent rust epidemics?

Chris Gilligan, University of Cambridge

Thursday Oct. 7

Keynote: The importance of including gender and household considerations for plant health interventions

Nozomi Kawarazuka, International Potato Center

Friday Oct. 8

Keynote: Orchestrating new solutions for faster genetic gains and improved wheat seed delivery

Alison Bentley, CIMMYT

View the full program

Global Action: Innovative Wheat Research Projects Respond To Food Security Crisis

For more than a decade, the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative has brought together vast numbers of researchers and scientific knowledge to combat threats to wheat security. And in those years there have been many exciting research discoveries, some which we are proud to share:

Top 10 research highlights

News & Updates

The science behind the perfect bread and pasta flour

News: AGG/CIMMYT

Scientists at CIMMYT understand that the quality of the final product, be it spaghetti, a loaf of sourdough bread or a tandoori naan, is highly dependent on the quality of the grain and the flour it becomes. Every year, CIMMYT analyzes thousands of wheat lines in detail at its Wheat Quality laboratory to determine the nutritional, processing and end-use quality of the grain. In this short video, CIMMYT’s Wheat Quality lab head Maria Itria Ibba explains exactly what they are looking for and how they find it.

Watch the video

Basic Wheat Improvement Course

News: CIMMYT

Since 1968, the CIMMYT wheat training program has been training plant scientists to address challenges in wheat production around the globe. The Basic Wheat Improvement Course provides an overview of basic concepts in genetics, conventional breeding, statistics, plant physiology and pathology, as well as the integration of new technologies into breeding pipelines.

Fees: None

Application deadline: December 5, 2021

More Information

How scientists are preparing wheat for climate change

News: Mashable

Above fields of wheat in northern Colorado, drones equipped with thermal imaging technology read the temperatures of swaying canopies.

They’re looking for wheat plants that stay cooler than the rest — a serious advantage as the world gets warmer.

Women in Triticum Updates

Meriem Aoun

Meriem Aoun, 2018 receipient of the Women in Triticum Early Career Award has accepted a position as an Assitant Professor-Small Grains Plant Pathologist at Oklahoma State University. She will be supporting OSU's wheat breeding program to help release resistant varieties in the Southern Great Plains.

Deadline for WIT applications is October 31, 2021!

Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Awards.

WIT Early Career

WIT Mentor

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Recent Publications

Stem rust: its history in Kenya and research to combat a global wheat threat

Thomas G. Fetch, Robert F. Park, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Ronald M. Depauw

Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology

The long road to engineering durable disease resistance in wheat

Brande BH Wulff and Simon G Krattinger

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Occurrence of new races and virulence changes of the wheat stripe rust pathogen (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in Egypt

Atef A. Shahin

Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection

Snapshots

Credit: Paula Silva

"Screening of stripe rust races and inoculum production for field inoculations" - @PaulaSilva_Uy from Twitter

Paula Silva, WIT 2020, is a wheat breeder at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria - Uruguay

We want to see more of the wheat science community in action! Share your photos by tagging @globalrust on social media or email us at bgri@cornell.edu

Be a part of the BGRI community

We are an international community of hunger fighters committed to sharing knowledge, training the next generation of scientists and engaging with farmers for a prosperous and wheat-secure world. If you have any news of interest to share with the BGRI community, please send us a message! We share community updates in our monthly newsletter and social media. Tag @globalrust and use #BGRI to get involved in the conversation.

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