Responsibilities:

• Conducts annual cereal rust surveys and epidemiological research on cereal rusts.
• Directs national leaf rust race identification program.
• Compiles and distributes annual report on economic losses due to cereal rusts in the U.S.
• Identifies leaf rust resistances in cultivars and experimental selections.
• Tests all new cultivars of barberry for susceptibility reaction to stem rust.

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