June 6th, 2013 | Featured, Publications
In 2002, a team of international and national partners from China, Ecuador, Morocco and Uganda, Bioversity International, FAO and faculty from Universities in the USA, Australia, and Europe came together to discuss ideas on how traditional and modern crop varietal diversity could be used within crop production and pest management strategies to reduce current and [...]
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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 »September 21st, 2012 | China, News
By the Collaborating team comprising: YANG Yayun, XU Furong, A Xinxiang, ZHANG Enlai, YU Tengqiong, HE Chenxing, ZHAO Zixian , DAI Luyuan of Yunnan Agriculture Academic of Sciences ,China. In Xiding Town of Yunnan province, maize is attacked by diseases like northern leaf blight, southern leaf blight, gray leaf spot, curvalaria leaf spot, common corn [...]
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June 7th, 2012 | Ecuador, News
By the collaborating team comprising; Danilo Vera & Diego Vaca, Miriam Cabanilla, Juan Agama, Carmen Suárez-Capello In Ecuador, plantain is the basic component for family nutrition. Musa cultivars are part of any farming system in the lower areas of the country, the Coast and the Amazon. Total plantain exports occupy the eighth place in the [...]
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June 6th, 2012 | News
An experimental design to evaluate the effect of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) mixtures in controlling the damage caused by Angular leaf Spot and Beanfly in Uganda, a discussion by scientists. Reacting to a proposal made by students, the scientists involved in the pests and diseases project gave the following suggestions. The students originally proposed to [...]
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August 17th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News
Can plant be protected by insects when they are attacked by pests? The mechanisms of resistance to pests put in place by landraces to defend themselves from pests attacks are a very important source of resistance. With globalization, both resistant varieties and pests and pathogens move around As a consequence resistance genes in secondary centres [...]
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August 4th, 2011 | China
Small holder farmers are constantly fighting with pests and diseases and every year they need to bet on which options, in terms of varieties and crops, will reduce the loss caused by pests and diseases. This is a real challenge for them as the type of pests and pathogens in any given year or cropping [...]
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July 28th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News
Much of the 30% of the world’s annual harvest lost to pests and diseases occurs in developing countries. The resulting economic and food resource costs are, to a significant extent, a consequence of crops growing in monocultures and the continuing evolution of new races of pests and pathogens that are able to overcome resistance genes [...]
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July 20th, 2011 | Bioversity Headquarters, News
The effects of climate change on potential abiotic stresses are well known. Changes in CO2 concentration, increased temperature, increased drought, changing on rainfall patterns have all been documented in the IPCC reports (http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml) and in several recent publications. The effects of climate change will be different in different parts of the world and there exist [...]
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