The overall goal of RustWatch is to establish a stakeholder-driven early warning system for yellow rust, leaf rust and stem rust on wheat to improve preparedness and resilience to emerging plant diseases in European bread and feed wheat and durum production. The early warning system will consist of shared rust diagnostic facilities and stakeholder networks within research, plant breeding, disease management, and agricultural advisory services, engaging in monitoring, sampling, data sharing and transfer of knowledge and alerts to end-users.

The concept of the project is to seek European solutions to solve challenges caused by wheat rust disease (yellow-, leaf- and stem rust) - emerging pathogens which spread across national borders and affect major food crops in EU member states. This involves inter-disciplinary collaboration between plant pathology, breeding, agronomy, agro-chemistry, molecular genetics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), i.e., to increase the expertise and efficiency in rust monitoring within these stakeholder networks. Research activities will interact at all these steps and will involve two-way communication with stakeholders, recognizing their expertise to resistance breeding, disease surveillance and pathogen sampling. PM-based disease management will involve project partners as well as larger lead users by linking with pre-existing stakeholder networks within plant breeding, value-for-cultivation-and-use (VCU) trials, agricultural advisory services and the agrochemical industry



          
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