February 4th, 2013 | Morocco
Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.) crop is important in Morocco for its important agronomic, livestock and socioeconomic roles. Net blotch, caused by Pyrenophora teres f. sp. Teres, is one of the major diseases of barley. The severity of this disease is partly due to the cropping of vulnerable varieties. A study to analyze the local [...]
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December 18th, 2012 | News
There is a direct correlation between crop diversity and pest and disease control. When farmers grow varieties with uniform resistance to a pest or disease, crops can become more susceptible to attack by bacteria or viruses, and epidemics can result. The resulting food and economic losses also show how pests and diseases are continuously evolving [...]
More »November 6th, 2012 | Ecuador
By: Mayra Cathme, Mayra Llamatumbi and José B. Ochoa. Maize is an important food crop in the highlands valleys of Ecuador. Among other reasons farmers maintain maize diversity to reduce biotic stress losses (hypothesis). Northern leaf blight (NLB) ( Exserohilum turcicum(Pass.) Leonard & Suggs is an important disease. The avirulence/resistance gene for gene relationship has [...]
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August 20th, 2012 | News, Uganda
Black sigatoka disease, caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is second most devastating disease of banana and plantain. It is spread through air-borne conidia and ascospores. The disease decreases photosynthesis, reduces fruit size and induces early maturation in susceptible banana cultivars thus leads to yield reductions that may exceed 50% (Rodriguez-Garcia et al., 2010). Currently, recommended control [...]
More »Prof. Wang Yun Yue of Yunnan Agricultural University, National Centre for Agrobiodiversity Research and Development One of the key components for sustainable agriculture is the long-term use of crop varieties which significantly affects the world food security. The Hani people have demonstrated this concept very well. These people live in a mountainous area of Yuanyang [...]
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July 6th, 2012 | News
A new video on the importance of crop diversity under climate change has been recently published by Bioversity International. Carlo Fadda, one of Bioversity International’s senior scientists based in our Sub-Saharan Africa office, Nairobi, talks about the importance of using agricultural biodiversity to suit farmers’ future needs in the face of climate change. Watch the [...]
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June 13th, 2012 | Morocco, News
By Belqadi Loubna; Department of Production, Protection and Vegetable Biotechnology, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco Faba bean is the major grain legume crop in Morocco, covering nearly half of the area annually planted to grain legumes. In the same way, the area covered by barley exceeds the other cereals (common, durum [...]
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