An early warning campaign will be carried out again in 2025 - using the RustWatch Rust survey crowdsource App. This campaign will be conducted in collboration between the RustWatch network and the Horizon Europe project IPMorama

Links: Crowdsource App   Dashboard   Getting started   Read more

Objectives

• Target: To establish the status of yellow rust, Leaf rust and stem rust in common wheat, durum wheat and triticale from February 2025 to June 2025. It is important also to upload "no disease" as the objective of the campaign is to monitor the status of the wheat rusts and which cultivars are affected and which are not.

• Where: We invite stakeholders from all Europe to participate in the campaign. Campaigns will be carried out also in IPMorama case study regions in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Slevenia.

• What we ask for: Location name, Cultivar name, Growth stage, Field type, wheat rust diseae score, and one or more photos.

• Who to contact re local organising:

• Where can you find the results: Results and photos are publicly available on the Wheat rust dashboard.

• Samples for genotype and race analysis: If you find unusual attacks or attacks on a cultivar supposed to be very resistant, then please contact your advisor or consultant. He can decide if a sample should be sent to one of the Rustwatch labs or your national lab for further analysis.

Our goal is to have genotype results ready before the end of May. These results will be a part of an early warning message on the GRRC website and IPMorama website. The same alert will be issued via regional  Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems web sites in local language.   

It is important also to upload "no disease" as the objective of the campaign is to monitor status of the wheat rusts and which cultivars are affected or not. Based on the experiences from this early campaign and feedback from stakeholder groups, we will decide if another campaign will be accomplished later in the season.  

You can find the link to the App, where to find results, documentation and a user guide on this web page

Below is indicated the RustWatch definition of wheat rust early warning