This presentation provides information about the types and cultivars of banana in Tanzania.
Published by: Banana Nematode Baseline Project (BNBP), Year: 2016, Pages: 19, File type: PDF (1.76 MB)
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This paper presents a smartphone application that can provide a remote diagnosis of crop health. The farmer is able to upload an image of a plant and obtain a disease score from a remote server.
Published by: , Year: 2016, Pages: 6, File type: PDF (852 KB)
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This document addresses the problems many researchers face early in their career, ranging from sourcing funding to networking.
Published by: SciDev.Net, Year: 2016, Pages: 6, File type: PDF (581 KB)
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This paper reviews sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) yield trends across nutrient management scenarios using meta-analysis.
Published by: Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Year: 2016, Pages: 19, File type: External link (1.36 MB)
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Characterisation of non-coding DNA satellites associated with sweepoviruses (Genus Begomovirus, Geminiviridae): definition of a distinct Class of begomovirus-associated satellites
This study has identified small DNA satellites associated with sweepoviruses in both the Old World and New World regions. Although satellites from the regions have related helper viruses and infect related hosts, they are only distantly related.
Published by: Springer Microbiology, Year: 2016, Pages: 13, File type: External link (4.44 MB)
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This document was produced by ICIPE Kenya (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology) as part of their Climate Smart Comics series. It depicts the challenges faced and improvements noted as a result of using push–pull technology to address the five key constraints of cereal–livestock mixed production systems in Africa.
Published by: ICIPE, Year: 2016, Pages: 12, File type: External link (1.97 MB)
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This short film produced by ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology) features farmers in western Kenya who have benefited from the adapted push–pull technology and demonstrates its transformational impact on their livelihoods.
Published by: ICIPE, Year: 2019, File type: External link
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This paper reports on cloning and evaluation of the maize root cap-specific protein-1 promoter for root tip targeted expression of transgenes that provide a defence against plant parasitic nematodes in transgenic plantain.
Published by: Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, Year: 2016, Pages: 9, File type: External link (1.61 MB)
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This study uses meta-analyses in an integrated framework to examine the interactions of smallholder agrobiodiversity with: (1) livelihood processes, especially migration; and (2) plant–soil ecological systems.
Published by: Land, Year: 2016, Pages: 2, File type: External link (1.3 MB)
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This meta-analysis reviewed 91 published papers with 552 paired comparisons to obtain a central tendency of three main greenhouse gas fluxes (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) in response to biochar application.
Published by: GCB Bioenergy, Year: 2016, File type: External link (555 KB)
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