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Alliance reviews pilot control strategies for banana bunchy top disease in Africa

Alliance reviews pilot control strategies for banana bunchy top disease in Africa

Members of the Alliance for Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) Control in Africa met at the International Institute of Tropical ...
ILAC pilots transdisciplinary research on Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in DR Congo

ILAC pilots transdisciplinary research on Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in DR Congo

The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative, in partnership with Bioversity International and with funds from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, ...
Controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt with the single diseased stem removal technique

Controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt with the single diseased stem removal technique

The bacterial disease Banana Xanthomonas wilt (better known as BXW) has caused significant losses in banana production in East and ...
New banana disease to Africa found in Mozambique

New banana disease to Africa found in Mozambique

A destructive strain of a banana wilt disease has been discovered on Cavendish bananas in Mozambique. The disease, widely known ...
More "matoke" in East Africa with planned regional testing of first-ever, high-yielding hybrids

More “matoke” in East Africa with planned regional testing of first-ever, high-yielding hybrids

Dar es Salaam - 25 October 2013. The production of the East Africa Highland banana, also known as cooking banana ...
Global Musa Expert Workshop: Production constraints, yield gaps, and research strategies for smallholder banana production

Global Musa Expert Workshop: Production constraints, yield gaps, and research strategies for smallholder banana production

As part of the multi-crop priority assessment exercise coordinated by RTB, the Global Musa Expert Workshop took place in Kampala, ...
Banana Survey Results to be used to Select Research Options at Expert Uganda Workshop

Banana Survey Results to be used to Select Research Options at Expert Uganda Workshop

Browse through the results and join the online discussion. The results of a survey of banana experts, conducted at the ...
New publications: Trainer’s manuals on banana tissue-culture plantlets

New publications: Trainer’s manuals on banana tissue-culture plantlets

The RTB Research Program recently released its first publications, the result of an IITA-coordinated project. Two training manuals, one on ...
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