The world’s leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas—invited to Mexico by Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug—today reported significant progress in developing new varieties of wheat capable of resisting a virulent form of an old plant disease that threatens wheat production worldwide. [...] Ravi Singh, a CIMMYT wheat geneticist and pathologist and lead author of the study, said highyielding, Ug99-resistant spring wheat varieties are rapidly emerging through an intensive international ”shuttle breeding program.”