Sentences with phrase «leaf rust»

A round - up of the many stories and news items about the impact of coffee leaf rust, and commentary on long - term consequences.

She is currently developing an instrument to collect feedback data on the social impact of development assistance given to small - scale coffee farmers affected by the recent coffee leaf rust disorder epidemic.

The most effective strategy to control leaf rust has been to grow resistant varieties.

Thanks to the support of our customers, we're also donating millions of disease - resistant trees to help farmers fight threats like coffee leaf rust.

My press, Betsy, was owned by a retired hobby printer and when he passed away she was left rusting in a shed.

Linkage and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping were performed by combining our new genotypic data with a previously generated genetic map for this population, then adding rust disease data from our experiment to identify genomic regions associated with leaf rust resistance.

It was not clear to what extent El Salvador's coffee crop, already blighted by an outbreak of leaf rust, might be affected by the eruption.

The so - called leaf rust, or roya, is a yellow and orange - colored fungus that has swept coffee fields from Mexico to Peru over the past two years, threatening to stunt production and drive up the price of Latin American roasts.

If you want to live next door to someone who leaves rusted - out cars in the front yard and an old sofa on the porch, you're welcome to do so.

It will facilitate the completion of applied projects, such as the selection or creation of coffee tree varieties with improved technological and / or qualitative characteristics; more resistant to environmental constraints and to bioagressors, such as for example orange leaf rust.

Since then, it has released two major coffee cultivars — Colombia (in 1980) and Castillo (2005)-- that have been effective since 1983 in tempering leaf rust while preserving the characteristics so important to world - class coffee: high yield, large grain size, great taste.

For example, the coffee leaf rust fungus has had devastating effects in Latin America.

It appears that the synergistic effect of some multiple gene combinations, including Lr2BS, enhances leaf rust resistance.

Part Deer Hunter, part Winter's Bone, Scott Cooper's new film casts a haunted image of ugliness scarring natural beauty, whether it's the steel town petering out and leaving a rusted carcass in a Pennsylvania valley, or the human nastiness up in the hills on the Jersey border.

The city has left its Rust Belt image far behind and is now considered one of the preeminent «green» cities in the U.S.. Its hometown university and Bowling Green are both leading institutions in alternative energy research.

Cincinnati, long ago, left its Rust belt image behind.

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

In particular, the spread of the devastating coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix), to which C. is vulnerable, hastened the uptake of the resistant robusta.

She did her PhD research in a collaborative project involving Punjab Agricultural University and the John Innes Centre, UK, to deploy stripe and leaf rust resistance genes from non-progenitor wild wheat in commercial cultivars.

She was owned by a retired hobby printer and when he passed away she was left rusting in a shed.

Starbucks is using its menu boards for the first time to shed light on the role of coffee farmers, and bring awareness to the challenges they face, including coffee leaf rust and climate change.

Another factor is the prevalence of various diseases and pests, including coffee berry disease (Colletotrichum coffeanum), coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix), and coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei).

Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.

The Centroamericano (a hybrid of Rume Sudan and Sarchimor which is resistant to leaf rust) was delicious with notes of pink grapefruit and chocolate.

Coffee leaf rust is found in virtually all nations that produce coffee.

In particular, the spread of the devastating coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix), to which C. is vulnerable, hastened the uptake of the resistant robusta - tree.

The same year, when the first reports of a massive epidemic of a fungal disease called coffee leaf rust were circulating in Central America, Dr. Schilling sounded alarms and organized the first Coffee Leaf Rust Summit in Guatemala.

A fungal blight, coffee leaf rust, was found growing in damp, shady plantations in Brazil.

Its goal — to raise enough funds by the end of 2016 to plant 20 million coffee seedlings to replace trees that are declining in productivity due to age and disease, such as coffee leaf rust.

The fungi that cause stem rust, leaf rust and stripe rust belong to the genus Puccinia.

TAM 305 is resistant to stem and leaf rust.

But Gaitán warns that scientists need to be careful to target the entire range of coffee leaf rust, of which some races are more virulent than others.

Inhibiting this infiltration process could be key to stopping coffee leaf rust.

When coffee leaf rust — which was first spotted in East Africa in the 1860s — made it to South America in the 1970s, Colombia's national coffee research center, Cenicafé, was already a decade into its rust resistance breeding program.

The world's most damaging coffee disease, leaf rust has torn through Latin America, costing farmers an estimated $ 1 billion and cutting some harvests by more than half in Central America.

The genetic screening of leaf rusts would also enable authorities to rapidly characterize — and more quickly mitigate — the next severe leaf rust outbreak.

At the heart of the 25th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC) was a burning question: how to deal with coffee leaf rust, or roya.

The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI), founded by the late Dr. N.E. Borlaug, has the overarching objective of systematically reducing the world's vulnerability to stem, yellow, and leaf rusts of wheat and facilitatingg the evolution of a sustainable international system to contain the threat of wheat rusts and continue the enhancements in productivity required to withstand future global threats to wheat.

A three - phase experiment was conducted on a doubled - haploid population derived from the cross RL4452 / AC Domain to determine if the resistance of a recently discovered gene (Lr2BS) worked with other resistance genes to synergistically enhance resistance to leaf rust.

What to do if your dog's eyes constantly tear and leave rust - colored stains beneath her eyes?

With warmer, wetter weather overall, growers are experiencing infestations such as coffee leaf rust and the berry borer in high - altitude locations that used to be unsuitable to such pests.