Scientists are fighting damaging wheat fungi from East Africa, but breeding new crops won't help unless farmers plant them.
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Gayathri Vaidyanathan is an International Development Research Center fellow at Nature.
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Vaidyanathan, G. Science in Africa: The wheat stalker. Nature 474, 563–565 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474563a
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