{"id":203,"date":"2016-05-28T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/?p=203"},"modified":"2019-11-24T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T00:50:47","slug":"featured-story-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/featured-story-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat can make a difference: production of disease-free banana seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\" ><div id=\"x-section-1\" class=\"x-section\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px; background-color: transparent;\"  ><div class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: -45px auto 0px;padding: 0px;\"  ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><h2  class=\"h-custom-headline cs-ta-left h3 accent\" ><span>Heat can make a difference: production of disease-free banana seed<\/span><\/h2><hr  class=\"x-hr\" style=\"border-top-color: rgb(152, 85, 18);border-top-width: 15px;\"><div class=\"x-text\"  ><p><div id=\"attachment_508\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-508\" class=\"wp-image-508 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/feature-7-pic.jpg\" alt=\"feature-7-pic\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/feature-7-pic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/feature-7-pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/feature-7-pic-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rtb.cgiar.org\/2015-annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/feature-7-pic-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banana plantation worker in Colombia<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">RTB researchers have shown that heat treatment can be a cost-effective tool for controlling disease transmission in banana and plantain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">In partnership with the Colombian Plantain Growers Federation (FEDEPLATANO) scientists at CIAT standardized a prototype of a thermotherapy chamber for propagating clean planting material that has proven to be effective and adaptable. Plantain corms are placed in a chamber to sprout under controlled conditions of temperature (50\u00ba-70\u00baC) and high humidity, with frequent fertigation, producing healthy seedlings faster than traditional methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The technology was further validated by Bioversity plant pathologist Miguel Dita, who built a prototype chamber at the Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education, in Costa Rica, and has since been adopted by organizations in several countries. FEDEPLATANO and CIAT built a large thermal chamber in La Tebaida Quind\u00edo, Colombia that produces disease-free plantain planting material for approximately 7,000 farmers. CIAT also collaborated with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation for the construction of another large, fully automated chamber for plantain farmers in Northeast Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLarger thermal chambers are an efficient option for the mass production of clean seed for farmer associations,\u201d explained CIAT researcher Elizabeth Alvarez. \u201cHowever, the technology has also been successfully adapted for smaller scale operations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Alvarez cited the example of simplified thermal chambers built by farmers in El Salvador. With technical assistance from CIAT and FEDEPLATANO, and support from the NGOs Oxfam, Caritas and Catholic Relief Services, farmer associations in the department of Moraz\u00e1n built tunnel-formed chambers using translucent plastic sheets and other inexpensive materials that now produce clean banana seed for about 1,650 smallholders, 350 of who are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">CIAT has promoted the technology with manuals in Spanish and English via the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) banana network and has collaborated with CIRAD to promote it as a way to control the banana and plantain disease Moko bacterial wilt in LAC. The technology has also been tested in Peru, and there are plans to evaluate it in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon and DR Congo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile IITA researchers have validated an even simpler thermotherapy option for cleaning banana and plantain suckers of nematodes. IITA researcher Stefan Hauser explained that farmers merely need to dip suckers into boiling water for 30 seconds prior to planting to kill nematodes, adding that research has demonstrated that this practice improves yields. IITA has promoted the boiling water method to African banana and plantain farmers through a <a href=\"http:\/\/nextgen-agronomy.org\/practical-guides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">manual and flyers in multiple languages<\/span><\/a>, and demonstrations for more than 1,000 farmers in Cameroon, Nigeria and Zanzibar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Alvarez noted that CIAT has also promoted thermotherapy to combat the spread of cassava frogskin disease, with thermal chambers a various sizes for producing clean cassava planting material built in several departments of Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica and Paraguay. She added that the technology could likely be adapted for other crops as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><h3  class=\"h-custom-headline cs-ta-center h4 accent\" ><span>Related links<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-section-2\" class=\"x-section\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px 0px 45px; background-color: transparent;\"  ><div class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\"  ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-feature-box left-text top-text cf\" style=\" max-width: none;\" data-x-element=\"feature_box\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;child&quot;:false,&quot;graphicAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;graphicAnimationOffset&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;graphicAnimationDelay&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" ><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic square \"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-outer square\" style=\" margin-right: 20px;\"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-inner square\" style=\"font-size: 200px;\"><img 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