The document summarizes discussions from the 2nd International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium. Key points include:
1. Surveillance and information sharing are needed between countries to monitor evolving wheat rust pathogens that do not respect borders.
2. National action plans and rapid responses like fungicide application or new resistant varieties are required to control emerging rust strains.
3. A long-term, coordinated global effort is required to develop durable rust resistance through continued crop research and development of new wheat varieties. Regional collaboration on research and capacity building was emphasized.
1. 2nd International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium
Izmir, April 28 – May 1, 2014
K. Nazari, A. Osman, M. Keser
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2. Kumarse Nazari
k.nazari@cgiar.org
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS (ICARDA), ALEPPO, SYRIA
2011 BGRI Technical Workshop, JUNE 13-16, 2011
Yellow Rust in CWANA in 2010-2011
“The situation and Measures Taken”
CWANA
Highly Diverse
&
Challenging Region
Population: >1 Billion people
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3. Driving Forces of Regional/ And
International Stripe Rust Epidemics
• Pathogenic variability?
• Narrow genetic basis of
resistance?
• Adaptation to climate change?
• Host preference change?
5. The International Wheat Stripe
Rust Symposium was organized
by:
ICARDA – the International Center
for Agricultural Research in the Dry
Areas — in collaboration with the
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
(BGRI), the International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT), the Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO) of the UN, the
International Development Research
Center (IDRC, Canada), the
Association of Agricultural Research
Institutions in the Near East & North
Africa (AARINENA), and the
International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD). 5
6. A call for Global Mitigation of Stripe Rust
Epidemics
1. Long-term investment to reduce the threat of stripe rust
Summary Status
Component Stem rust Stripe rust
Coordinated Global Response X =
Clearly defined target X ?
Information systems + Data
Management
X not global
Surveillance Network + Tools X Spillover from stem rust
(timeliness?)
Pathotyping capacity X with limitations (GRRC with some limitations)
Ahead of disease
progress?
X -
Source: Dave Hodson, CIMMYT6
8. • Capacity
development
• Fast-track
variety release
• Accelerated seed
multiplication
and seed
delivery
• International and
national training
courses
• Long & short -
term training
• Graduate student
• Regional traveling
workshop
• International
program
• National
program
• Utilization of
genetic
resources
• Race analysis
• GRRC
• National rust
laboratory
• Trap Nurseries
• Exchange
information
Co-ordinated
pathogen
monitoring
and
awareness
Co-ordinated
breeding for
durable
resistance
Effective
seed system
Capacity
building and
training
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9. 2. Strategies to address wheat stripe rust disease
• Surveillance and information exchange between countries.
• Planning, awareness, and preparedness to rapidly deliver
appropriate seeds and fungicides where they are needed to
arrest the spread of wheat rust diseases.
• New capacity and skills in ministries, extension services, and
at the farm level to develop effective strategies for managing
rust diseases.
• Crop research for a continued, long-term effort in developing
new varieties that are resistant to the emerging pathotypes of
wheat rust.
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10. 3. Approaching stripe rust as a social disease
• stripe rust does not respect national borders
• The rusts are ‘social diseases’
• The fight against rust requires good neighbors, working
together
• The role of policy makers and global leadership is crucial if
we are to take a significant step forward in minimizing the
impacts of Pst
• to build a cooperative attitude for information sharing, the
mutual sharing of risk analyses, and trust at Regional and
international level
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11. 4. Encouraging the development of national action
plans
• A multi-faceted approach is needed by
countries to combat wheat rusts.
• Immediate action to combat new rust
pathotypes is often the use of fungicides
• Reducing the cropping of susceptible mega-
cultivars across vast wheat growing areas is
perhaps the best insurance policy against
widespread rust damage
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12. 5. Reducing the impacts of narrow range variety
dependence
• Diversified cropping of wheat (DW & BW)
• Use of non-race specific durable resistance
genes
• Maintenance breeding as short-term strategy
• Better understanding of genetic basis of
resistance of current cultivars and candidate
advanced lines
• Search and utilization of new sources of
resistance from land races and wild relatives
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13. 6. Coordinated effective seed system
• Developing a clear approach to seed
multiplication and farmer engagement with new,
diverse varieties
• Strengthening NARS in capacity development
• To establish fast-track variety release systems
• Participatory demonstration and accelerated
seed multiplication of newly released wheat
varieties
• fast replacement of existing vulnerable
commercial varieties
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15. 15
• Race analysis
• International TNs
Pathogenic
Variability
• Seedling & Adult-plant
• Molecular Markers
Resistance
screening
• Short and long term
training
• Studentship
Capacity
building
19. • General Directorate of Agricultural Researches and
Policies (TAGEM)
• The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI)
• International Winter Wheat Improvement Program
(IWWIP)
• Aegean Agricultural Research Institute (AARI)
• The Central Research Institute for Field Crops
• ICARDA
• ICARDA Rust Pathology Team
Acknowledgements:
Thanks you for your attention
Hinweis der Redaktion
CWANA for example if one of the region in the world with almost 50 million hectares that is affected by periodical stripe rust epidemics. Considering the epidemiological factors and the history of recurrent epidemics, the wheat areas in Africa (eastern and northern countries), the Middle East, the Caucasus region, and West and South Asia now appear to comprise a single epidemiological zone – hence any new pathotype that evolves in one country in the region is likely to disperse to the entire region.
A call to action for continued investment The purpose of this report is to provide new perspectives, share countries’ experiences and highlight potential solutions to the wheat rust diseases that are re-emerging today, threatening livelihoods and productivity growth in many low-income countries. It has been prepared to inform government decision-makers and agricultural planners in countries affected by wheat rusts, and in the international development and donor communities – on what is needed to effectively manage the threat of these wheat diseases.The history and potential dangers of a wheat rust epidemic are known and have been discussed frequently in agriculture and development circles in the past decades. This report takes the discussion one step further. It examines the practical steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of large-scale crop damage from wheat rust, focusing specifically on the needs of low-income countries.The concepts and approach summarized in this report are based on decades of crop science research on developing disease-resistant wheat varieties that are used by farmers today in the world’s major wheat growing areas. This is a synthesis of the debates of over 100 scientists and policymakers from 31 countries – at the International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium, organized by ICARDA in Aleppo, Syria in April 2011– among leading crop scientists, agricultural economists and policy makers from many low income countries that are dealing with stripe rust problems on a daily basis.
An international forum to discuss the way forward in stripe rust R&D was held at ICARDA headquarters in Aleppo, Syria, in April 2011. The following resolutions from that meeting continue to provide a framework for the future:1. Long-term investment is needed to reduce the threat of stripe rust
Efficient and effective seed delivery systems are critical for new crop varieties to reach farmers and bring impacts in ensuring food security and improving livelihoods of farmers. However, most national seed systems operate under heterogeneous environments in terms of agro-ecology, farming systems, crops and markets. They face a broad range of constraints including policy and regulatory frameworks; inadequate institutional and organizational arrangements; deficiencies in production, processing, and quality assurance infrastructure; and lack of trained personnel limiting technical and managerial capacities, compounded by farmers’ difficult socio-economic circumstances. It is therefore important to assist and strengthen NARS in capacity development, establish fast-track variety release systems, and participatory demonstration and accelerated seed multiplication of newly released wheat varieties to ensure fast replacement of existing vulnerable commercial varieties.