Figures & data
Table 1. Examples of epidemics and losses due to wheat stem rust infection
Fig. 1 (Colour online) Wheat stem rust infection on stems and leaves (reproduced from Brar et al. Citation2019)
Fig. 2 Life cycle of Puccinia graminis.
Table 2. Description of ‘K’ races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Kenya from 1928 to 1957
Fig. 3 (Colour online) Aerial view of bird cages, inoculation building, and greenhouse in 1973. Photo courtesy of Dr. T. F. Townley-Smith
Fig. 4 (Colour online) Plant breeding crosses performed inside bird cages in 1973. Photo courtesy of Dr. T. F. Townley-Smith
Table 3. Wheat cultivars released in Kenya as part of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) project
Table 4. Stem rust-infected wheat lines from the PC YR/LR nursery at Kalengyere, Uganda sent to South Africa for race analysis in 1999
Fig. 5 (Colour online) The actual single pustule (right) sampled from a Veery #3 wheat seedling for phenotypic description of original Pgt-Ug99 isolate in 1999. The leaf on the left represent a control isolate avirulent to Sr31.
Fig. 6 (Colour online) Confirmation of virulence in isolate Pgt-Ug99 for Sr31 on the wheat genotypes Kavkaz, Federation*4/Kavkaz, Bobwhite ‘S’ and Alondra S
Fig. 7 (Colour online) Headlines from popular science articles on Ug99
Fig. 8 (Colour online) Wheat rust spores lodged among the fibres of a pair of denim trousers after taking notes in a rust nursery. Photo courtesy of Dr. F. J. Kloppers
