«The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,» Laury Marshall Parramore, a spokeswoman for the wildlife agency, wrote in an email. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Kanyuka notes that the Stb6 gene is effective against only a fraction of fungal strains, specifically those strains that secrete a matching protein, called AvrStb6. (sciencedaily.com)
The first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years was caused by the same fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. (wheat.org)