This study tests the utility of phylogeny for predicting plant–soil feedbacks by undertaking a hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis on all available pairwise plant–soil feedback experiments conducted over the last two decades.
Published by: New Phytologist, Year: 2015, Pages: 5, File type: External link (419 KB)
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This article is a review of the function of microorganisms in insects.
Published by: Annual Review Entomology, Year: 2015, Pages: 22, File type: External link (181 KB)
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This article considers the potential impact of different technologies for maximising gains for key traits in cassava and highlights the advantages of integrating them.
Published by: International Journal of Plant Breeding Research, Year: 2015, Pages: 24, File type: External link (1.59 MB)
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This study uses a theory of change and a Population-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome framework to structure its systematic review into socioeconomic and environmental effects of the Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program on human populations and land resources.
Published by: Environmental Evidence, Year: 2015, Pages: 11, File type: External link (1.10 MB)
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This study intended to: (1) identify additional sources of resistance to CBSD; (2) determine the stability of resistance to CBSD; and (3) determine mega-environments for screening resistance to CBSD.
Published by: Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science, Year: 2015, Pages: 12, File type: External link (172 KB)
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The dynamics and environmental influence on interactions between cassava brown streak disease and the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci
This study reports on results from the most extensive set of field data so far presented for cassava brown streak disease in Africa.
Published by: Ecology and epidemiology, Year: 2015, Pages: 10, File type: External link (1.04 MB)
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This review focuses on the distribution of iron in Nigerian soils and factors affecting its availability.
Published by: Journal of soil science and environmental management, Year: 2015, Pages: 4, File type: PDF (336 KB)
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Tracking crop varieties using genotyping-by-sequencing markers: a case study using cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
This study shows that genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism markers from genotyping-by-sequencing methods coupled with complementary cluster analysis are a powerful tool for tracking cassava crop varieties.
Published by: BMC Genetics, Year: 2015, Pages: 11, File type: External link (1,579 KB)
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This study analyses factors underlying the effectiveness of reactive eradication of localised outbreaks of invading plant disease, using citrus canker in Florida as a case study.
Published by: PLOS Computational Biology, Year: 2015, Pages: 24, File type: External link (1,799 KB)
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Effect of cassava brown streak disease on cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) root storage components, starch qualities and starch quality properties
This study looks at the impact of cassava brown streak disease on cassava root storage components for four Ugandan varieties with varying levels of tolerance.
Published by: International Journal of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Year: 2015, Pages: 11, File type: External link (311 KB)
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