Experts fear deadly fungus in South Asia wheatfields
by Yahoo news
15 Marzo 2008
PARIS (AFP) - A wheat-killing fungus has spread from Africa to Iran and may already be in Pakistan, which depends crucially on wheat to feed its population, New Scientist magazine says.
The killer pathogen, known as Ug99, emerged in Uganda in 1999, spread to Kenya in 2001, to Ethiopia in 2003 and then leapt to Yemen, its spores blown by Cyclone Gonu in June 2007.
The fungus has now been found in Iran "and may already be in Pakistan," the British weekly says in next Saturday's issue.
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