Indeed, 90 percent of the world’s wheat has little or no protection against the Ug99 race of P. graminis. If nothing is done to slow the pathogen, famines could soon become the norm — from the Red Sea to the Mongolian steppe — as Ug99 annihilates a crop that provides a third of our calories.
via Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation | Magazine.
Red Menace: Ug99 Fungus is Going to Destroy the World’s Grain
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