Plantwise Blog

Onions can be affected by pests in storage, reducing the value of the crop © André de Jager, IFDC

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the identification of genes that increase resistance to potato late blight, improved onion storage in Burkina Faso and the identification of a natural bacterium that kills plantain moth larvae.

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• Burkina Faso to improve onion storage facilities
  Fresh Plaza, 9^th April 2015

• Zimbabwe: Climate Change Increases Agric Losses
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 9^th April 2015

• Copa-Cogeca warns of black spot spread
  Eurofruit, 9^th April 2015

• Living mulch, organic fertilizer tested on broccoli
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 6^th April 2015

• Nigeria: Tackling Challenge of Food Scarcity at Scientists’ Confab
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 5^th April 2015

• New Zealand: Scientists closer to natural insecticide
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 4^th April 2015

• Tanzania: State Moves to Check Maize Disease Threatening Crop
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 4^th April 2015

• Scientists Discover Plant Defense Against Potato Late Blight
  Crop Biotech Update, 1^st April 2015

• New Bill to Protect Dev’t of Crop Varieties in Rwanda
  Crop Biotech Update, 1^st April 2015

• Argentina: Severe rainfall and hailstorms jeopardise lemon harvest
  Fresh Plaza, 24^th March 2015

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