BGRI Blog June 28, 2022 2022 Women in Triticum award winners The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is excited to announce the 2022 Jeanie Borlaug Laube… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog December 10, 2021 BGRI early-career scientist awards for International Cereal Rust and Powdery Mildew Conference The BGRI is supporting two early-career scientists to attend the 16th International Cereal Rust and… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog November 1, 2021 Wheat in Nepal: a look back, and ahead Dhruba Thapa recently retired from the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) after a 28-year career.… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog October 11, 2021 Ravi Singh earns Lifetime Achievement Award from Borlaug Global Rust Initiative World-renowned plant breeder Ravi Singh, whose elite wheat varieties reduced the risk of a global… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog October 8, 2021 Canadian research team wins Borlaug Gene Stewardship Award The rust-resistant wheat cultivar development team at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) earned the Borlaug… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog September 2, 2021 Global action: innovative wheat research projects respond to food security crisis When Norman Borlaug said, “Rust never sleeps,” he was warning of the emergence of a… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog September 1, 2021 DNA fingerprinting maps wheat variety adoption across Nepal and Bangladesh Wheat is one of the most widely grown crops globally, yet for many farmers the… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog August 16, 2021 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop When a devastating plant pathogen threatened worldwide wheat production in the early 2000s, it took… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog June 30, 2021 Combining resistance genes to improve wheat yields By: Dr. Jianping Zhang, Dr. Ian Dundas, Dr. Robert McIntosh, Prof. Evans Lagudah, Dr. Peng… John Bakum Love0
BGRI Blog May 4, 2021 New Wheat Rust Genomics website launched A wheat rust genomics website has been launched as a hub of genomic data and… John Bakum Love0