Mehdi Sadravi,
Volume 3, Issue 1 (3-2014)
Abstract
Yellow rust is a major disease of wheat in Iran. Airborne spores fungal pathogen are the primary source of contamination. Temperature, humidity, wind intensity and direction, reaction of growing cultivars to the disease, presence of wheat in summer, planting time and nutritional status of wheat are effective factors in epidemy of the disease. The importance of the disease in the world, symptoms of the disease , effective factors in disease spread, forecasting model and its administrative procedures, and suitable fungicides to control the disease have been described .
