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The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the Genetic Vulnerability of Wheat to Rust

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The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is a collaboration of scientists from around the world inspired by Dr. Normal E. Borlaug to combat the threat of dangerous rusts of wheat. The BGRI’s Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project is aimed specifically at mitigating the threat of wheat stem rust Ug99 through an interdisciplinary approach that includes pathogen surveillance and diagnostics, gene discovery efforts, rapid breeding and deployment of new varieties of durably resistant wheat, gene stewardship, seed multiplication and delivery, and human and infrastructure capacity building. Responsible gene stewardship and genomic approaches are guiding the delivery of varieties that carry diverse race-specific resistance gene combinations and complex multigenic race non-specific “adult plant resistant” gene combinations to protect the world wheat crop against potential epidemics of wheat stem rust.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Cally Arthur for carefully reviewing the manuscript and Dave Hodson for sharing Fig. 13.2. The BGRI is supported by funds provided through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development to Cornell University for the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat (DRRW) project.

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  1. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, 251 Emerson Hall, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Sarah Davidson Evanega

  2. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo, 6–641, 06600, Mexico, DF, USA

    Ravi P. Singh

  3. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, 252 Emerson Hall, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Ronnie Coffman

  4. Washington State University, 291D Johnson Hall, 99164, Pullman, WA, USA

    Michael O. Pumphrey

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Evanega, S., Singh, R., Coffman, R., Pumphrey, M. (2014). The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the Genetic Vulnerability of Wheat to Rust. In: Tuberosa, R., Graner, A., Frison, E. (eds) Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7575-6_13

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