Talk:Stem rust

Spread of Ug99
I disagree that Ug99 spread to Asia and most recently to the Middle East. I think it is the other way round, having reached Yemen, for example, before Iran. Is there some citation to support the timeline in the article?JeremyCherfas (talk) 15:28, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you JeremyCherfas and this is supported by Singh et al., 2011. I have modified the sentence to remove the chronology. A detailed timeline of the spread of Ug99 can be found on the Ug99 page. Famedog (talk) 17:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

some discussion of what percentage of our wheat crop is lost every year due to rust would be a good addition. i recall that it is a LARGE percent.Wikiskimmer 16:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The link to Schuman, G L ... seems broken.

Merger Proposal
I feel that since Ug99 is a stub at the moment there is very little reason for it to have its own article, and as it is just one race of this pathogen it should have a segment in this article. Million_Moments 16:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No comments to merge completed Million_Moments 07:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

As a farmer I strongly disagree. This is a serious topic and this information should be spread before the rust itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.214.129.101 (talk) 11:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I have re-separated the two pages since Ug99 now contains significantly more info than it did at the time of merging. Although the Ug99 page is far from complete it is probably now long enough to be its own page and I, for one, intend to continue contributing to it. Famedog (talk) 17:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

LA Times
This article may be useful for the article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-wheat-rust14-2009jun14,0,1751268.story A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop - June 14 2009 208.70.31.186 (talk) 11:13, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * This might be helpful too, additional images at the german wiki: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getreideschwarzrost Ruigeroeland (talk) 10:24, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Introduction - Overemphasis on Ug99
The introduction focuses too heavily on Ug99. It should certainly be mentioned in the introduction because it helps to establish the notability of stem rust. However the level of detail about this one lineage of stem rust is inappropriate (regardless of whether Ug99 has its own page or is a section in the stem rust page). For guidelines on writing an introduction see Writing_better_articles. Famedog (talk) 17:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 06:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Professor K.C. Mehta biography
He was among greatest plant  pathologist  in India...Pls add his note too on Wikipedia.... 2409:4053:211E:1733:E810:337D:3C3E:EA96 (talk) 01:48, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If you provide sources to that effect I will do so. Invasive Spices (talk) 21 April 2022 (UTC)