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Visit the BGRI Web Site E-Mail BGRI January 2011 BGRI E-Newsletter Visit the BGRI Web site E-mail BGRI January 2011 BGRI E-Newsletter Contents Message from Ronnie Coffman DRRW Planning and Partnering in India Announcements BGRI Briefs Upcoming Events Recent Publications Awards Obituary: Donald V. McVey Message from Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair of the BGRI Dear colleagues, The availability of wheat, a food staple in so many developing countries, is once again fueling rising food prices. The high price of food, and wheat in particular, sparks concern among world leaders because food security issues are frequently behind violent protests. Most recently, they were a factor in the unrest among Tunisians, who toppled their president while neighboring states sped up their purchases of wheat to secure supplies. High prices are being fueled by the devastating floods in Australia, fire and drought in Russia (which closed their export markets), strong North African demand, and the dry season in the U.S. Analysts are saying that wheat futures may not reach their 2008 peak, but some estimate prices as high as US$9 bushel. These prices are a further call to action for wheat scientists around the world to continue to breed new varieties that are resistant to the vagaries of drought and flooding, and the persistent challenges of stem rust and yellow rust. Wheat rust scientists, including molecular geneticists and pathologists, as well as wheat breeders and others with an interest in the rusts of wheat, particularly yellow rust and stem rust will be gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota, 13-16 June 2011, for the BGRI 2011 Technical Workshop. St. Paul is home to the USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota, Norman Borlaug’s alma mater and the place of Stakman’s classic work on stem rust. The deadline for early registration is extended to February 15. Take advantage of the $100 in savings if you register for the workshop before February 15. You may register online at http://guest.cvent.com/d/ydql2y/1Q. Poster abstracts are due February 28 to Anna Hammond Garber: [email protected]. The North American Rust Workers meeting will take place in St. Paul on June 12, prior to the 2011 BGRI Technical Workshop. We are grateful to the University of Minnesota and the USDA Cereal Disease Lab for hosting the 2011 meeting. In the meantime, the Third International Group Meeting on Wheat Productivity Enhancement under Changing Climate will be held 9-12 February 2011 at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) in Dharwad, in Karnataka, India, hosted by Dr. R.R. Hanchinal, Vice-Chancellor. http://www.uasd.edu/3rdIGM/wheatintmeet.pdf I also hope to see many of you at the International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium, which will be held 18-21 April, 2011 at ICARDA, in Aleppo, Syria, in collaboration with CIMMYT and the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative. On behalf of consumers and the world’s wheat farmers, I applaud all of your efforts on crop improvement, disease resistance, quality improvement and resource management in the face of biotic and abiotic stresses. Norman Borlaug may have said, “Rust never sleeps,” but he could also have been talking about wheat scientists. Cheers, Ronnie Coffman, Vice Chair Borlaug Global Rust Initiative DRRW planning and partnering in India: Oct 19-20 About 50 wheat scientists and rust workers from both the public and private sectors convened in New Delhi, India, on October 19-20, 2010, for a workshop on “Strategic Planning and Partnering for Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat.” The meeting was organized by the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat (DRRW)-South Asia in association with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The meeting brought together scientists from India’s agricultural universities, private seed and input companies, as well as policy makers to review projects funded by the DRRW, ICAR and DBT, and to establish recommendations for collaboratively mitigating wheat rust in India. The possibility of establishing public- private partnerships for strengthening research and knowledge sharing among different public and private institutes involved in wheat research was also discussed. Among the recommendations were the following: to Wheat pathologist Indu Sharma (left) from Punjab Agricultural University talks with finalize a common nomenclature system for the research geneticist Mike Pumphrey at the identification of rust pathotypes prior to the St. Paul Strategic Planning and Partnering for Durable Minnesota meeting in June 2011; to establish protocols Rust Resistance in Wheat workshop in New for sample collection and dispatch to diagnostic labs in Delhi, 19-20 Oct. India, South Africa, Denmark, the U.S. and Canada; to integrate surveillance in the breeding programs of the private sector in India; to revive the SAARC nursery maintained by the Directorate of Wheat Research; to test all the Ug99 resistance genes with known robust markers for deployment in India; and to be strategic and cooperative about the use and stewardship of the limited available number of rust resistant genes. Progress on the recommendations will be reviewed in the South Asia sub-group meeting during the St. Paul meeting in June. “In order for durable resistance to rust to be established in India, it is extremely important that India lead the strategic deployment of resistance genes for India and South Asia and join the international movement to stack and introgress three or more genes into the varieties being developed for durable rust resistance,” said Ronnie Coffman, director of international programs at Cornell University and the principal investigator for the DRRW project, in his opening remarks. The proceedings of the meeting are available at http://www.globalrust.org/traction/permalink/advocacy2826 Announcements Monsanto Beachell Borlaug International Scholars Program APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2011. To apply or learn more about the program, go to http://www.monsanto.com/mbbischolars Applications for the third round of funding from Monsanto’s Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program (MBBISP) are currently being accepted now through February 1, 2011. Funds are available for scholars pursuing a PhD in wheat or rice plant breeding. MBBISP is a five-year, $10 million program to support scholars who are focusing their work on addressing global challenges of rice and wheat. Texas AgriLife Research administers the grants. Please note that scholars must complete part of their PhD program in Australia, Canada, Western Europe or the United States and part in another country. Students work with their advising professor or scientist who then submits the application for the student. BBSRC announces research competition to combat biotic and abiotic stresses. DEADLINE FOR OUTLINE PROPOSALS: March 31, 2011. For details about the call for proposals, go to http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/scprid/ In an important move to harness science to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world, research funders from the U.K. and U.S., and government departments in the U.K. and India have announced a new $32 million joint research initiative. The funding is available through the Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development (SCPRID) initiative, which is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Department of Biotechnology of India’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The focus of the program is to understand and counter the effects of abiotic (drought, temperature, salinity, nutrient deficiency, etc.) and biotic stresses (pathogens, pests, weeds) that constrain food crop production in developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Funding will be awarded to teams that can show that their research can improve food security and increase sustainable crop yields within the next 5-10 years. The emphasis is on cassava, maize, rice, sorghum and wheat. For more information about the initiative, visit http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/food- security/2011/110111-pr-developing-countries.aspx Deadlines for rust screening submissions to Kenya and Ethiopia The screening facilities of East-Africa cater to two cycles per year. It is important to strictly adhere to deadlines. Material received after the season-specified deadline given below will be sown in the next season. DEADLINES FOR SENDING MATERIAL FOR SCREENING: Spring wheat: Main season: 1st week of May (Kenya and Ethiopia) Off-season: 1st week of November (Kenya); 30 November (Ethiopia) Winter wheat: Vernalization requirement prior to planting in field (minimum 8 weeks in advance depending on the material sent). For information and the protocols for sending germplasm for screening in Kenya and Ethiopia, visit http://www.globalrust.org/traction/permalink/screening38. Or contact Sridhar Bhavani (Kenya): [email protected] or Dr. Bedada Girma (Ethiopia): [email protected]. RUSTGENE e-list launched Many workers around the world are making great progress on enhancing resistance to cereal rusts. As new methods and materials are developed, there is a greater need to rapidly share information about how to use them most effectively. Toward that end, Bob Bowden (USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS) and Erick De Wolf (Kansas State University) have started a new email listserv called RUSTGENES. The purpose of the listserv will be to promote international discussion on the use and stewardship of resistance genes for cereal rusts, with an emphasis on wheat stem rust. Topics that might be addressed include: phenotyping, resistance sources, germplasm releases, markers, gene postulation, regional deployment strategies, pyramiding, breeding strategies, performance, information resources, etc. To avoid spam messages, this is a controlled access listserv. Only listserv members will be able to post messages. If you are interested in joining the list, please send a message to Bob Bowden ([email protected]) or Eric DeWolf ([email protected]) and they will add your email address. Please also include your full name in the message.
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