It is confirmed that there is a plague that may drive the European wheat production into a devastating crisis

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Plague has been confirmed in Europe with the possibility of causing catastrophic damage to the production of wheat, which is the food of many people.

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Signs of infection were confirmed by "Black rust diseaseIt is a type of epidemic disease called. Although this disease has existed in the past and epidemic is regularly confirmed, the pathogen that was discovered for the first time in Sicily in Italy in 2016 is a new type which is different from the past and very strong infectivity Because it has big damage, it is said that alert information warning of infection has been issued.


Professor Chris Gilligan, an epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, England, said, "It is necessary to be careful not to become a wolf boy, but this can be the biggest epidemic among the epidemic diseases confirmed in Europe for many years There is sex, "he says about the magnitude of the risk of the pathogen found.

The alert information was issued on 2 February 2017, the Global Rust Reference Center (World Rust Fungus Reference Center: GRRC) located in Aarhus University in Denmark and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico (World Maize and Wheat Improvement Center: CIMMYT) It is published by.
CAUTION: Risk of wheat stem rust in Mediterranean Basin in the forthcoming 2017 crop season following outbreaks on Sicily in 2016


In 2016, in Sicily, the damage of black rust was confirmed in tens of thousands hectares of wheat fields. According to the GRRC which confirmed the details, it has been confirmed in the laboratory's verification that the newly discovered pathogen is also infected with wheat varieties which have been considered highly resistant to disease, There is concern about the size of. From now on, the influence on wheat actually cultivated will be verified.

In addition to black rust disease, the damage of another type of "Huang rust disease" has also been confirmed in a wide area mainly in Europe and North America. These pathogens are considered to have equal influence because they are the same strain as the species damaged in North America and Afghanistan.

Epidemic epidemics that infected wheat and cause serious damage to crops have been confirmed in various parts of the world so far. There were pathogens of the species called "Ug99" in the past that caused serious damage, and in the 1990s and 2000s they had serious damage in some areas of Africa and the Middle East. But in Europe it has not been confirmed great damage since the 1950s, but it seems that pathogens discovered on Sicily are predictive of the epidemic pandemic. Comparison of influence with Ug99 has not been done yet, but it is unlikely to deny the possibility of having equivalent damage.

The biggest difference from the past is the development of research science and countermeasures, and the speed of information transmission through the Internet. It seems that there will be interest in how actual damage will spread and how related institutions and farmers deal with it.