How to get ready for the onslaught of yellow rust

摘要

Wheat's second most important disease is finding new ways to slash grain yields and growers are being urged to prepare for the potential fungal invasion. Louise Impey looks at the latest advice from experts.Yellow rust takes its name from the highly visible parallel lines of yellow-orange pustules that are produced along the leaves of adult plants.The most severe epidemics are usually associated with the perfect storm of very susceptible varieties, mild winters and cool moist summers, with yield losses of40-50 being recorded where crops do succumb.