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Banana-like enset fruit

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the development of shock treatments for weeds, plans to monitor pesticide residues in Nepal and the development of enset varieties resistant to bacterial wilt disease in Ethiopia.

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• Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2014
  Biodiversity international, 28th January 2014
• Africa: Global Easy Water Project Joins Business Call to Action By Providing Low-Cost Irrigation Systems for Rural Farmers
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 27th January 2014
• Common crop pesticides kill honeybee larvae in the hive
  EurekAlert, 27th January 2014
• U-Michigan ecologists: No magic bullet for coffee rust eradication 
  EurekAlert, 22nd January 2014
• Scientists to create disease-resistant Ethiopian enset
  IAPPS, 22nd January 2014
• Disease Resistant Bean Varieties Increase African Farmers’ Income
  Crop Biotech Update, 22nd January 2014
• Iowa State University researchers sequence genome of a soybean fungus responsible for sudden death syndrome in soybeans 
  SeedQuest, 21st January 2014
• Panama: New plantain varieties
  Fresh Plaza, 20th January 2014
• Shock treatment for weeds that resist chemical control
  Farmers weekly, 20th January 2014
• Nepal Agricultural Research Council plans to monitor pesticide residue level
  The Himalayan Times, 18th January 2014

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