Anna Berlin, Sweden, is an agronomist with a PhD in plant pathology from the University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden. She is working in the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, at SLU, Uppsala. Most recently she was the lead author on a paper reporting an unusually intense stem rust attack in the wheat fields of Sweden, with initial indications that it is a sexual population emerging from barberry. The last major stem rust outbreak reported in Sweden was 67 years ago.