TARI has released 4 improved high-yielding & disease-resistant banana varieties opening up great opportunities for seed systems development. IITA's Delphine Amah had an opportunity to share her macropropagation experiences with the team at TARI Maruku. #PROSSIVA

🌿 DigiSeeds 🌱 seedtracker.org allows #cassava & #sweetpotato seed producers in #Tanzania 🇹🇿 to register their farms, get seed certified by TOSCI, & market their seed, BUT, challenges remain, including limited access of producers to computers or smartphones #PROSSIVA

Check out this cool perspective paper that I got to work on w/ @MorganCarterPhD, @ArmitageDW, @MitjaRemus, CE Morris, @JP_DundoreArias, Leveau and Kinkel! The phyllosphere is a wild & wonderful ecosystem at temporal and spatial scales Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10.10…

🔊 Calling all innovators! Be part of the AI-griculture Challenge Hackathon by CIP. Dive into tracks like: ✅ Biodiversity ✅ Crop Improvement ✅ Regenerative Agriculture ✅ Urban Food Systems. Let's make a difference together! 👉🏽 bit.ly/Event-Hackatho… 🔸 CGIAR

🇳🇬🌱 Yoruba Yam 🚜🇳🇬 #yam farmers in Ijaiye nr. Ibadan explain seed biology differences between yam varieties. In essence, small mini-tuber (depicted with stones of varied size) can produce large ware Yams & larger minitubers can produce small ware yams, depending on the variety

🇳🇬 Naija Roots n Tubers 🥔 Wonderful meeting the dynamic research team of NRCRI UMUDIKE to hatch plans together for research innovations that will remove bottlenecks in seed systems of root & tuber crops, such as #cassava and #yam. Lots of progress to talk about #PROSSIVA

A team from International Potato Center and IITA, both the CGIAR's research centers, met President Nteranya Sanginga at AALI African Agricultural Leadership Institute's HQ in Kalambo, #DRC. The aim was to learn more about AALI with a view to exploring collaboration in #agriculturaltransformation amongst the three institutions.

#GroundBreaking: The RTB-EAGEL is a collaborative project🤝between #KEPHIS, IITA, and International Potato Center funded by GIZ through a program called Crops to End Hunger (CtEH) of the CGIAR RTBs play a vital role in the diets and socio-economics of many households🥔🍠 #RTBEAGEL

#GroundBreaking: The RTB-EAGEL lab aims to provide services such as pathogen diagnostics, virus-elimination, in vitro and germplasm exchange services as well as a platform for Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) research & knowledge sharing. IITA International Potato Center CGIAR #RTBEAGEL

#CIP's Rosemary Gatimu produces disease free #sweetpotato vines at #KEPHIS as starter stocks for high quality #seed production. In #Prossiva we explore practical solutions to challenges with tissue culture lab contamination & long turnarround time for virus elimination.

Glad to have been part of this landmark event….the inaugural international day of potato celebrations. CIP continues to partner with MINAGRI, RAB, RICA and the Private sector to enhance production of quality early generation seed potato for the farmer’s preferred varieties.

Disaster plant pathology: effects of disasters on plant health & design of management solutions New work by @Berea_Etherton Robin Choudhury 🐀 Ricardo I. Alcalá Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda Aaron Plex Ashish Jacobo Robledo Jorge Andrade-Piedra Kwame Ogero, PhD Israel Navarrete Open: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congrats Aaron Plex V de Col @Berea_Etherton Graham Thiele & team! As #OneCGIAR develops, what are key lessons from past programs? New frameworks for understanding collab. networks: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… CGIAR International Potato Center ICARDA Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT IITA CIMMYT ICRISAT

I am co-moderating the epidemiology technical session and also presenting part of my dissertation in that session. Please attend this session on Tuesday July 30 at 10:15 am CDT. #abouttograduate #PhD #plantheath2024 #Americanphytopathologicalsociety

Check out the great work of Ashish Aaron Plex Jacobo Robledo Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda @Berea_Etherton at #PlantHealth2024 & there's more on disaster plant pathology here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH… UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department The Global Food Systems Institute at UF IFAS Emerging Pathogens Institute with International Potato Center IITA Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

An often-overlooked component of natural and human-driven disasters is their potential to affect plant health and thus food security at domestic and international scales. Read the news release on disaster plant pathology: bit.ly/3WC27fK

Congrats to Horacio!!! A rising star at OhioStatePlantPath

Seed quality of vegetatively propagated crops (#VPCs) is an essential component in disease management. @TOSCI inspectors undertook a training organised by PROSSIVA to enable them to effectively inspect and certify #EGS #Bananas aiming to combat #BBTV in Tz. IITA

😎 Field Certification 😎 The Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute (TOSCI) is driving quality up in the seed systems of #Tanzania. Here, TOSCI's Salehe Kombo shares a light moment 😎 during a rain-soaked visit to seed producers in the Lake Zone 🌨️ #PROSSIVA

International Potato Center is at the 15th Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops – African Branch (#ISTRC-AB) in Abidjan! From Feb 3-7, Dr. Hugo Campos & our team are presenting 7 groundbreaking papers on breeding, seed systems, processing & humanitarian delivery. 🔸