2016年,侵袭了意大利西西里岛麦类作物的传染病是一种新型且非常具有毁灭性的真菌菌株,并且该菌株的孢子很可能已传播至世界最大的小麦产区——欧洲,甚至感染了将在今年收割的庄稼。英国剑桥大学的流行病学家Chris Gilligan认为:这种细菌疫情很可能成为欧洲长久以来农作物病害最为严重的一次暴发。在2月2日发布的报告中,研究人员证实了TTTTF——一种茎锈病的 Infectious disease that hit cereal crops in Sicily, Italy, in 2016 was a new and very devastating fungal strain, and the spores of the strain are likely to have spread to Europe, the world's largest wheat-producing area, and even become infected Crops to be harvested this year. Chris Gilligan, an epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge in the UK, said the bacterial outbreak is likely to be one of the most dramatic outbreaks of crop diseases in Europe. In a February 2 report, researchers confirmed that TTTTF, a stem rust