The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.
By Karen Kaplan
June 14, 2009
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes.
Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto thousands of healthy wheat plants. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99.
Cont.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,1751268.story
Full Version: A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop
QUOTE (rpedog @ Jun 28 2009, 10:40 PM) 
The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.
By Karen Kaplan
June 14, 2009
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes.
Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto thousands of healthy wheat plants. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99.
Cont.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,1751268.story
By Karen Kaplan
June 14, 2009
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes.
Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto thousands of healthy wheat plants. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99.
Cont.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,1751268.story
That could make it very difficult for dumpster diving anarchists like Ante to keep themselves fed and from being ridiculed or spit upon for their rants against world economics and food production, if those crops fail. If those crops fail they will be to worried about feeding themselves and not about the wheels of the highly mechanized capitalistic farmers .
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.