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Increasing the resilience of roots, tubers & bananas

Increasing the resilience of roots, tubers & bananas

Given its focus on the resilience of root, tuber and banana crops, Flagship Project 3 (FP3) aims to incorporate environmental, ...
Gender, breeding and genomics workshop - Open call for case studies

Gender, breeding and genomics workshop – Open call for case studies

You are invited to submit an abstract for a case study of plant or animal breeding that has successfully incorporated ...
Adding value and reducing postharvest losses in Uganda’s cooking banana value chain

Adding value and reducing postharvest losses in Uganda’s cooking banana value chain

Cooking banana is the main staple crop in Uganda produced mostly by smallholders for food and income. However, the cooking ...
Clean planting material to combat Moko disease of plantains in Latin America

Clean planting material to combat Moko disease of plantains in Latin America

Moko bacterial wilt is the principal bacterial disease limiting plantain production in Latin America and the Caribbean, and it is ...
Exploring banana diversity with the enhanced Musa germplasm information system

Exploring banana diversity with the enhanced Musa germplasm information system

The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the most extensive source of documentation on banana genetic resources, is now available on ...
The effectiveness of knowledge sharing: The case of ProMusa, a global knowledge platform on banana

The effectiveness of knowledge sharing: The case of ProMusa, a global knowledge platform on banana

ProMusa is a knowledge-sharing platform on bananas managed by Bioversity International through funding from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, ...
Unravelling the banana's genomic potential: ISHS/ProMusa held symposium in Brisbane, Australia

Unravelling the banana’s genomic potential: ISHS/ProMusa held symposium in Brisbane, Australia

The International Society for Horticultural sciences (ISHS)/ProMusa symposium entitled “Unravelling the banana's genomic potential”, was held from 18-20 August 2014 ...
Université KU Leuven : la Belgique et les bananes dans le RTB

Université KU Leuven : la Belgique et les bananes dans le RTB

Rony Swennen, professeur à l'université belge KU Leuven, a rejoint l’équipe du RTB l’année dernière. C’était pour lui une étape ...
From the University of Leuven: Belgium, Bananas and RTB

From the University of Leuven: Belgium, Bananas and RTB

For Rony Swennen, professor at the Belgian university KU Leuven, joining RTB last year was the next logical step in ...