Coffee leaf rust, caused by the biotrophic fungus Hemileia vastatrix, remains the most devastating disease of Arabica coffee worldwide, inflicting yield losses that can exceed 30 per cent under ...

Soybean rust, caused principally by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, poses a major threat to global soybean production owing to its rapid epidemic potential and capacity for severe yield losses.

For more than 20 years, a large international group of researchers, including from Aarhus University, has worked purposefully to investigate a gene that protects wheat against yellow rust. Yellow rust ...