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IMAGE: A wheat field in Ethiopia with co-author Yoseph Alemayehu conducting a field survey with the mobile survey app used to gather data for the study described in the manuscript. view more
Credit: Dave Hodson (CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
A new study of wheat rust a fungal disease that can harm wheat crops identifies previously unknown long-term trends and hotspots for wheat rust outbreaks in Ethiopia. A team of modelers from the University of Cambridge and the Universität Hamburg, along with surveillance experts from CIMMYT, EIAR and agricultural universities in Ethiopia, present these findings in the open-access journal