On the upper floors of Throckmorton Hall at Kansas State University, a nondescript gray cabinetand set of freezers hold a collection of spores gathered from across the world to help Kansas wheat producers better manage common bunt. “We have had, in the last five years, more fields affected by common bunt, and these fields have had substantial yield loss,” said Kelsey Andersen Onofre, assistant professor of plant pathology in K-State’s College of Agriculture, who leads this research project along with fellow K-State plant plathogists Erick De Wolf and Sanzhen Liu, and Robert Bowden, supervisory research plant pathologist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS).