Collaboration between international scientists resulted in confirmation of the source of wheat blast in Bangladesh. Their findings were published in BMC Biology (Islam et al. 2016.Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused...
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Plantwise (a portal of the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, or CABI) has added the Pest Management Decision Guide on wheat blast to its Knowledge Bank. The guide can be found here. The guide was contributed...
July 14, 2016. The Hindu newspaper reports about the threat of wheat blast to India: “Deadly wheat blast is just across the border“. They wrote: “The Asian region produces 135 million tonnes of wheat every year...
July 4, 2016. According to Bangladesh New Daily, wheat import rises due to low yield. June 19, 2016. Islam et al. paper “Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe...
May 2, 2016. If Open Sharing Of Data Is A Great Idea For Combatting A Dangerous Plant Disease, Why Not For All Human Diseases? A techdirt post by @glynmoody. May 3, 2016. Wheat Blast, Bangladesh, and Biosecurity. USDA press...
Pierre Gladieux 1, Darren Soanes 2, Sebastien Ravel 3, Marc-Henri Lebrun 4, Nick Talbot 2, Didier Tharreau 3, Elisabeth Fournier 1 1 INRA, UMR BGPI, Montpellier, France 2 University of Exeter, UK 3 CIRAD, UMR BGPI, Montpellier...
April 26, 2016. Daniel Croll and Bruce McDonald, ETH Zurich, post in Github an analysis on the origin of wheat blast in Bangladesh based on the Open Wheat Blast data. They conclude that the pathogen was most likely introduced...
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...
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...