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Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) bags keep grain free of pests © IITA (CC BY-NC)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the promotion of grain storage bags to prevent pest damage in Kenya, the fight against herbicide-resistant weeds and managing Fusarium wilt disease in watermelon.

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• Farmers in Kenya demonstrate the effectiveness of PICS grain storage bags in preventing pest damage
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 8^th October 2014

• Policy Seminar: Food Consumption Patterns and Nutritional Status in Pakistan
  IFPRI info, 7^th October 2014

• The Year of the IPPC Official Contact Point (2014/15)
  IPPC News, 7^th October 2014

• Brazil: Portable detection for citrus greening
  Fresh Plaza, 7^th October 2014

• Africa: Ministers Meet At FAO to Discuss Role of Commodity Markets
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 6^th October 2014

• Kenya: Varsity Researchers to Help Curb Elgeyo Maize Disease
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 29^th September 2014

• How we can fight against herbicide-resistant weeds
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 25^th September 2014

• Can genetic engineering help food crops better tolerate drought?
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 25^th September 2014

• Managing diseases caused by Fusarium: The case of watermelon wilt 
  MSU Extension, 25^th September 2014

• Influência do nitrogênio na qualidade do trigo
  Embrapa, 23^rd September 2014

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