Late blight on potato
in Algeria: update
Head smut on Napier
grass in Uganda
March 09
Wheat stem rust,
strain Ug99: resistance breeding
Wheat rusts in Kenya,
India, Australia
February 09
Maize varieties
resistant to the widespread Striga plant parasite are a hit with
Nigerian farmers
January 09
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 12
- December 2008
- Report from the field:
Wheat stem rust resistance screening at Njoro, Kenya
December 08
International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) releases 2 new
Striga-resistant maize varieties
Powdery mildew on
sunflower in Tanzania
November 08
Australia
identifies wheat stem rust Ug99 in a consignment of wheat seed
from Ethiopia
October 08
Global partnership
protects Africa's maize from Striga, a deadly parasitic plant
August 08
Crop breeders on
verge of beating Africa’s most noxious weed use cutting edge
science technique
June 08
Fighting a
worldwide wheat threat
Combatiendo
una amenaza a la reserva mundial del trigo
May 08
First report of
Brown rot on potato in Mauritius
Yellow mottle and blast
diseases on rice in Uganda
April 08
First report of
Tobacco streak virus on faba bean in Sudan
Blast disease on rice
in Kenya
Blast disease on
rice in the central province of Kenya
March 08
Undiagnosed diseases
on maize and bean in Benguela, Angola - Request for information
Unspecified virus
potato disease reported in Kabale district of Uganda
Ug99 wheat killer
detected in Iran - Dangerous fungus on the move from East
Africa to the Middle East
- First report of
wheat stem rust, strain Ug99, in Iran
February 08
First report of
Rice yellow mottle virus in rice in The Gambia
December 07
New variant of
Wheat stem rust, strain Ug99 in Kenya
Report of
sorghum smut in Karamoja, Uganda
First reports
of Tomato chlorosis virus in southwestern Turkey and in
Mayotte Island, France
November 07
Bacterial
ring rot on potato - Algeria ex Canada
October 07
New information
platform for East African farmers
New Kenyan maize
variety resistant to the larger grain borer, a pest that
destroys a third of Kenya's maize crop every year
Undiagnosed
disease in vegetables crops in the Volta Region of Ghana
September 07
CIMMYT e-newsletter
vol 4 no 9 - September 2007
- The larger grain borer is taking a beating from CIMMYT
breeders in Kenya
- Battle to prevent a global wheat crop catastrophe from an
unchecked airborne fungus
First report of
Asian soybean rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi on
kudzu in South Africa
Iris yellow spot
virus in onion seed crops in South Africa
First report of
Asian soybean rust in the Democratic Republic of Congo
August 07
First report of
soybean rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi in Ghana
July 07
Barley yellow
dwarf virus & stem rust, cereals - Kenya
June 07
First report of
Brown stalk rot on maize in South Africa
May 07
Pre-empting a
horticultural and food security disaster in eastern Africa:
scientists move in to tackle the invasion of leafminer flies
into the region
April 07
East Africa
small-scale cereal farmers receive major boost
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