March 1, 2016. First news report of wheat blast in Bangladesh. March 8, 2016. Tofazzal Islam and Sophien Kamoun discuss applying field pathogenomics to the wheat blast outbreak. March 16, 2016. Tofazzal’s students collect...
Archive - April 2016
Prof. Bruce McDonald, ETH Zurich, has kindly shared the slides he presented at the Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, March, 2015. His talk provides an update on current knowledge of the wheat blast pathogen in Brazil. Bruce...
Latest on the #OpenWheatBlast project. Hon. Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture, People’s Rep of Bangladesh meets with Professor Tofazzal Islam’s team. Read Tofazzal’s account as posted on his Facebook...
Some useful facts via “Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming”, by Akbar Hossain and Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva. AoB Plants. 2013. Wheat is not a traditional crop in Bangladesh, and...