Wheat rust network meeting, Europe, 3 March, 2025

13.00

Welcome and introduction

Mogens & Annemarie

13.10

~ 10 min each

Wheat rust race and genotype distribution – Europe 2024                                                    (VCU sampling and alignment efforts between EU rust labs)

• Yellow rust

Mogens (AU-GRRC)

• Stem rust

Mehran (AU-GRRC)

• Leaf rust

Anne-Lise Boixel (INRAE)

Q&A

13.40

Wheat rust race and genotype distribution – Europe 2024 (continued):                                 Country surveillance reports and impact

~ 10 min each

• SEGES (Denmark). Experiences with wheat leaf rust        in 2024 – prevalence, control and impact

Ghita Nielsen (SEGES)

• NIAB (UK)

Kostya Kanyuka

• JKI (Germany)

Philipp Schulz

• INRAE (France)

Tiphaine Vidal

• IHAR (Poland)

Pawel Czembor

Q&A

14.40

Break

15.00

International wheat rust initiatives and synergies

~ 20 min

• HE project IPMorama https://ipmorama.eu/project-overview/: Brief introduction of project / with emphasis on wheat activities: integrating host and pathogen information at landscape level (“vulnerability mapping”), rust resistance specificities in commercial wheat cultivars, improved crowd source App and tools for wheat rust surveillance, including campaign winter/spring 2025, and promotion of variety mixture

Jens & Mogens (AU-GRRC)

Jerome & Tiphaine (INRAE)

~ 10 min

• FSOV project (wheat stem rust)

Frederic Suffert (INRAE)

~ 15 min

Q&A – general discussion – and future initiatives

all

15.45

AOB and Closure

Upcoming meetings and events 2025:

• 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference, 15^th- 20^th June, BC, Canada. https://icrpmc2025.ca/ FYI: early-career scientist awards available for the (deadline 15th March)
• 14th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology, 2^nd – 5^th June, Uppsala, Sweden. https://www.efpp2025.com/