Kasetsart 50 is a progeny that would make any parent proud. KU 50, as it’s called, is a high-yielding cassava ...
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As the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa becomes hotter and wetter, root, tuber and banana crops (RT&B crops) will ...
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The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has a strong and close working relationship with Wageningen University ...
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Roots, tubers and bananas are the foundation of food security for millions of people across Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
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COVID-19 and the banana-infecting Fusarium wilt fungus race TR4 have a lot in common besides being acronyms. Both are emerging ...
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The AI-powered mobile app PlantVillage Nuru has been expanded to include potato diseases, allowing farmers to identify and manage diseases in their field.  In 1845, farmers in Ireland ...
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As One CGIAR takes shape it becomes critical to build on the progress already made. Participants in the virtual Golden ...
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As the coronavirus can quickly spread amongst the human population, the bacteria that causes Xanthomonas wilt of bananas (aka BXW) ...
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When super-typhoon Ompong blasted through the northern Philippines in September 2018, farmers who grew sweetpotato and cassava were less affected ...
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During May 2021, the importance of root, tuber and banana crops was highlighted by Agrilinks, an online hub where agriculture, ...
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Plant breeders thought they were on the right track when they released a new hybrid variety of matooke, a variety ...
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Once upon a time two women, one very beautiful and one not so beautiful, were gathering wild yams in the ...
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