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Booklet

The official Rust Bust brochure, Management Strategies to benefit you, your neighbour and your industry, has been updated in September 2015. This comprehensive guide offers practical tips and strategies to bust rust this season. Click here to view an online version of the booklet.

Fact sheets

The Rust Bust has also developed fact sheets for SA, NSW, Victoria and WA. Please click on the links below to be taken to a PDF version of the A4 fact sheet.

SA The Rust Bust Fact Sheet_SA

WA The Rust Bust Fact Sheet_WA

NSW The Rust Bust Fact Sheet_NSW

Victoria The Rust Bust Fact Sheet_Vic

If you would like copies of the booklet or fact sheets for grower meetings or field days, please contact bridget@agcommunicators.com.au.

Case studies

RESEARCH

Aegilops peregrinum plant

If the deadly Ug99 stem rust arrived in Australia tomorrow, more than 60% of the country’s wheat varieties would be susceptible and have no effective resistance to the debilitating disease.

Thankfully, scientists like Dr Ian Dundas from the University of Adelaide’s cytogenetics laboratory are working on preventing this occurring by developing new rust resistant genes to be bred into modern wheat varieties.

Click here to read about Dr Dundas’ work.

GROWERS

Max Brown and his son Steve

Do you remember the 1973/1974 stem rust epidemic? It caused an estimated $300 million damage across southern Australia.

Max Brown, an 81-year-old farmer from Wolseley remembers seeing headers turn red from the rust dust.

Click here to read Max’s story or watch the video.

GRDC resources

Wheat Rust – The Back Pocket Guide

This back pocket guide is designed to help you identify the three wheat rust diseases by their different symptoms. Simply hold a suspect leaf next to the photos to identify which rust.

Adult Plant Resistance – APR is a useful trait to consider in variety selection. Understanding how it works can make fungicide application decisions easier. Click here to view the fact sheet on the GRDC’s website.

Green Bridge – The essential crop management tool – green bridge control is integral to pest and disease management. Click here to view the fact sheet on the GRDC’s website.

Fungicide Timing – Location influences foliar fungal disease control options. Click here to view the fact sheet on the GRDC’s website.

Taking Care With Foliar Fungicides – This fact sheet contains details on foliar products that contain the triazole fungicide, tebuconazole, and helps explain MRL management. Click here to download.

Stem Rust of Wheat – Seasonal conditions drive outbreaks. Click here to view the fact sheet on the GRDC’s website.

General Rust Links

The University of Sydney’s Plant Breeding Institute also has a number of helpful rust resources. Click here to view this site:

http://sydney.edu.au/agriculture/plant_breeding_institute/cereal_rust/index.shtml

Variety Guides

Visit the Rust Bust Variety Guide page to download your region’s variety guide. Click here to be redirected.

Cartoons

While rust is no laughing matter, we have tried to liven up our rust communications with ‘Rusty Man’. Check out our cartoons.

Latest News

Aussies help in South Asian rust management training
Leading Australian rust expert Professor Robert Park, from the University of Sydney, joined colleagues from Pakistan, Nepal, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Mexico & the US in Nepal recently for the Sixth South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation Wheat Rust Monitoring & Disease Management Course. The workshop was designed to foster regional collaboration and equip a new generation of South Asian scientists with the tools and knowledge to manage the threat of wheat rusts. Read more.

Growers urged to keep paddocks 'Free for February'
Growers are being urged to keep paddocks ‘Free for February’ to minimise the risk of rust and other diseases such as powdery mildew, and pests such as mites or aphids, surviving on a green bridge. Media Releases

New wheat leaf rust found in WA
A pathotype of the wheat leaf rust pathogen which has previously been present in eastern Australia has this year, for the first time, been detected in Western Australia. Read more: Rust Alerts/Reports

Stripe rust situation mid-spring
Australia: Stripe rust situation at mid-spring Friday September 25, 2015
Since the last Cereal Rust Report, stripe rust has been reported in crops from all wheat producing states except Tasmania. Infections were noticed within a few weeks of each other in Qld, southern NSW, SA & WA, suggesting the disease started in four distinct locations in 2015. With stripe rust present in most states all growers are reminded to monitor crops and submit samples of any rusts found to the Australian Cereal Rust Survey. Full details in the Cereal Rust Report (volume 13, issue 3).

Aust-wide rust reports highlight importance of crop monitoring
All three types of rust – stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust – have been found in crops of wheat, highlighting the importance of crop monitoring and early management. Leaf rust has also been found in barley crops, and stem rust and crown rust in oat crops. Click here to find out more.