Maricelis Acevedo, an early career pathologist specializing in the use of host resistance for control of cereal rusts, is currently a post doctoral fellow at the USDA-ARS, Aberdeen Idaho, working in the laboratory of John Bonman. Maricelis has screened wheat landraces from the USDA collection for stem rust resistance at the International screening nursery at Njoro Kenya for the past two years in order to identify new sources of resistance to the “Ug99” race and its variants. She is one of five...
Esraa Alwan is an MSc student studying under the supervision of Francis Ogbonnaya and Kumarse Nazari at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in association with Aleppo University in Syria. In St. Petersburg she will share her work looking for new sources of stem rust resistance in wild tetraploid wheat. She is one of five winners of the Jeanie Borlaug Women in Triticum inaugural award for 2010. Podcast recorded and edited by Liz Clarke, ICARDA
Jessica Rutkoski is a first year Plant Breeding PhD student in the laboratory of Mark Sorrells at Cornell University. In St. Petersburg, Jessica will present her preliminary work using genomic selection methods to incorporate Adult Plant Resistance to Stem Rust in Adapted Germplasm. She is one of five winners of the inaugural Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum prize. Recoded and edited by Liz Clarke, ICARDA
Hale Ann Tufan is a PhD student working with Dr. Lesley Boyd at the John Innes Centre. Hale is characterizing the development of Magnaporthe spp. on wheat in order to better understand the function of WIR1, a potential basal resistance gene important against a broad range of pathogens. She is one of five winners of this year's inaugural prize. Podcast recorded and edited by Liz Clarke, ICARDA.
Jemanesh Kifetew Haile is a PhD student working with Marion Roder at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research (IPK) and MIloudi Nachit at ICARDA. Jemanesh is a native of Ethiopia, where Ug99 poses a great threat to Ethiopian farmers. Her work aims to identify molecular markers linked to the stem rust resistance QTLs that provide resistance to virulent races, such as TTKSK (or Ug99), in durum wheat. She is one of five winners of the Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum in...
Global monitoring of wheat rust, and the network of people and organisations involved is growing exponentially, as the battle against wheat rusts intensifies. Rust never sleeps – since the 1980s, we have seen a massive increase in the emergence of new strains, and an increase in the number of incursions in many parts of the world. Dr Kumarze Nazari talking about what is involved in surveillance of wheat rust. Recorded and edited by Liz Clarke, ICARDA.
CGIAR "King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" awarded to the Program for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) The CGIAR Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) is implemented by a Consortium of partners, namely the eight National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, eight International Centers of the CGIAR ...