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Maize plants infested by Striga © IITA (CC BY-NC)

Maize plants infested by Striga © IITA (CC BY-NC)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including Striga resistant maize yielding well in Kenya, scientists in the UK  finding a potential way to control leaf blotch disease in wheat and a grant under the Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) to help small scale rice producers by creating better linkages in the rice value chain.

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2 Comments

  1. Samad on 14th February 2015 at 10:06 AM

    It is a helpful bolg regarding plant health. I did PhD on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Could anyone help me to find out links of chickpea.

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