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The overall project increases surveillance activities that maintain and improve established and successful core surveillance platforms for stem rust, with some inclusion of stripe rust with a special focus on East-Africa. At the same time it promotes improved genetic lines resistant to disease to increase yield, improving food security.

Period of Implementation
Jun 1, 2016 - Feb 28, 2020
Total Budget
USD 717,952.00

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OUR IMPACT

Goals

To increase the rate of genetic gain and systematically reduce the world’s vulnerability to wheat diseases, heat and drought stress, benefitting smallholder wheat farmers and consumers in East Africa and South Asia.

Objectives

To develop and promote wheat lines with resistance to rusts.

Problems and Needs Analysis

Recent stem rust outbreaks in East Africa underline the critical importance of continued monitoring of non-Ug99 races and new Ug99 variants, and new, aggressive races of stripe rust now constitute the most significant biotic constraint to wheat production globally. Other important wheat diseases in the Surveillance objective would be: Septoria, a major concern in Ethiopia; Spot Blotch, a primary constraint in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains; and leaf rust, in South Asia and on durum wheat in Ethiopia.

Intervention Strategy(ies)

Inside the overall surveillance project, ICARDA's activities are focused on the pre-breeding and breeding efforts in developing and promoting wheat lines with resistance to rusts. Strategy: - Data collection; - Field trials; - improved variety selection.

Impact Pathway

ICARDA's improved wheat lines will strengthen the surveillance platforms on yellow, leaf and stem rust, contributing to reduce poverty by increasing wheat productivity.

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