Epidemiology of Stripe Rust of Wheat: A Review

Stripe rust of wheat is supposed to be prevalent even before human beings started cultivation of wheat as a staple food.However, the first report of the disease is attributed to Gadd, who observed it from Europe in the year 1777.Soon after in 1794, stripe rust appeared in epiphytotic proportions on rye in Sweden (Singh et al., 2002).Severe epidemics of stripe rust all around the world with immense limiting potential of wheat yield, marked with profound economic importance makes it a global disease (Roelfs et al., 1992).Although, the first record of the disease from the USA was in 1915, but no