The effects of cool, wet weather and foliar diseases in Pennsylvania.

While there's some benefit to having a wheat variety on which stripe rust develops more slowly, the industry will need to either increase the number of minor genes used to combat stripe rust or combine them with traditional major-gene, strong resistance to specific races of stripe rust in our varieties, say researchers from Kansas State University.

There are several important factors that influence the value of an early-season fungicide in winter and spring wheat, North Dakota State University Extension.

Mild temperatures and adequate moisture in February and March will increase yield potential of the wheat crop, but also increase the risk of severe disease, says Kansas State University Extension.

Texas A&M University professor Amir Ibrahim and colleagues have released a cultivar of winter wheat, TAM 305, that is resistant to many rust fungi that are a plague to the crop.