Wheat rust epidemics damage Ethiopian wheat production: A decade of field disease surveillance reveals national-scale trends in past outbreaks

• M. Meyer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcel.meyer@uni-hamburg.de (MM); D.Hodson@cgiar.org (DH); cag1@cam.ac.uk (CAG)

  Affiliations Visual Data Analysis, Center For Earth System Research and Sustainability, Regional Computing Center, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Epidemiology and Modelling Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8457-9608

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• N. Bacha,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• T. Tesfaye,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Y. Alemayehu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• E. Abera,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• B. Hundie,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• G. Woldeab,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• B. Girma,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• A. Gemechu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• T. Negash,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• T. Mideksa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Sinana, Ethiopia

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• J. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Modelling Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• M. Jaleta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• D. Hodson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcel.meyer@uni-hamburg.de (MM); D.Hodson@cgiar.org (DH); cag1@cam.ac.uk (CAG)

  Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico

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• C. A. Gilligan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcel.meyer@uni-hamburg.de (MM); D.Hodson@cgiar.org (DH); cag1@cam.ac.uk (CAG)

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Modelling Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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