That staple of the vegetarian menu, the soya bean, may be under threat. Secret intelligence reveals that Islamic terrorists have fundamentally misunderstood the print material they smuggled out of the USA. In a missguided attempt to undermine the food ecomony they are experimenting with Soya Bean Rust as a terrorist agent.

Well, satirical comment aside, Soya Bean Rust is a potentially big problem and a suitable agent for terrorist purposes. Plant pathologists from around the world are meeting in Charlotte, NC, to address this and other potential plant disease agents at Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society.

Visit their website here to find out what the plant disease of week is (this week it is Volutella blight)

You can also look at their web cam of proceedings at the annual meeting.