The Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network (PCDMN) is ramping up activities for the 2023 growing season. Moreover, we are entering Phase 2 of the PCDMN with funding from various producer organizations and Saskatchewan and Alberta funding bodies.
Stay tuned for updates to the Blog and more extensive coverage of a wider range of Prairie crops and diseases!
The weekly PCDMN Prairie Cereal Rust Risk forecasts will start soon. In the meantime we have updated the rust risk overview document which you can access at this link: 2023 PCDMN Cereal Rust Risk overview. New for the rust risk forecasts is the addition of crown rust of oat, while we will also monitor the stem rust situation in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) as there have been increasing concerns
regarding stem rust, especially on barley, in this region (Upadhaya et al. 2022).
References:
Upadhaya, A.,
Upadhaya, S.G.C., and Brueggeman, R.
2022. The wheat stem rust (Puccinia
graminis f. sp. tritici) population from Washington contains the
most virulent isolates reported on barley.
Plant Disease 106: 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-06-21-1195-RE.