PLANTWISE – Update: Plant Health News (16 Mar 2016)

From the blog of Plantwise, with permission. Author: Claire Curry
 

Beans have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to climate change © CIAT (CC BY-NC-SA)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the success of the M9 banana variety in Uganda, a study into the timeline of climate change effects on agriculture and a warning on the use of miticides in Almond IPM.

• Ghana: Cassava could be an industrial crop
  Fresh Plaza, 15^th March 2016
• Kenya: Researchers Step Up Trials for Genetically Altered Crops in Bid to Fight Hunger
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 14^th March 2016
• Nigeria: Expert Advises Farmers Against Early Planting of Crops
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 14^th March 2016
• Tanzania: Subsistence Farmers Get AGRA Support
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 12^th March 2016
• Uganda goes bananas for the M-9 variety
  Fresh Plaza, 10^th March 2016
• Peruvian organic banana exports on a halt due to floods
  Fresh Plaza, 8^th March 2016
• Africa’s staple food crops vulnerable
  Fresh Plaza, 8^th March 2016
• Occurrence and pathogenicity of plant-parasitic nematodes on commonly grown banana cultivars in South Africa
  Bioversity International, 8^th March 2016
• Argentina: Red spot, the main disease affecting plums
  Fresh Plaza, 7^th March 2016
• Almond IPM: Selective miticides let predators build up
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 4^th March 2016

See more plant health news on the Plantwise Knowledge Bank.