🔬 Nuestro investigador Wilmer Cuellar, líder del equipo de Protección de Cultivos de la Alianza, participará como expositor en una capacitación sobre la enfermedad escoba de bruja en yuca.
📅 8 de mayo
🕘 9:00 a.m.
👉 Inscríbete: https://t.co/Hc6rDmrOSX
New Research: Genome analysis of Ceratobasidium theobromae and its causal association with cassava witches’ broom disease in the Philippines https://t.co/gm4bceD38E #FrontiersIn#FungalBiology
New Research: Widespread occurrence of cassava torradovirus 2 and cassava frogskin associated oryzavirus characterized the 2020–2023 outbreak of severe cassava frogskin disease in the Orinoquia region of Colombia https://t.co/DFzaMVtsjP #FrontiersIn#Agronomy
🌱 Webinar: Cassava Witches' Broom Disease in the Americas
Join us for a focused session on collaborative strategies to tackle CWBD—bringing together regional and international experts to strengthen early detection and coordinated responses.
👉 Register: https://t.co/V3rb6DLcUh
📰 #InTheMedia | 🌱 Alliance team — Jonathan Newby, Juan Manuel Pardo, Wilmer Cuéllar & Alejandra Gil-Ordoñez — solved the cassava witches’ broom mystery, identifying its genetic cause to protect food security. 🍠🌍✨
🔗 Read more in @ACIARAustralia.
https://t.co/RMo0xGBpg7
#ComunicadoOficial | Junto a @AgriculturaEc se confirma la presencia de #FocR4T en el Ecuador en la provincia de El Oro en el cantón Santa Rosa.
La corresponsabilidad y la articulación interinstitucional son fundamentales para proteger el mejor banano del mundo.
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📰 #InTheMedia | Mongabay featured our work to stop cassava’s viral spread from Asia to the Amazon. 🍠🌳 How is it linked to climate change and the 800M people who depend on this crop? Find out here 👇
🔗 https://t.co/PI8vbn18qs
Fungo vindo da Ásia destrói plantações de #mandioca da região Norte. Por causa do clima úmido da Amazônia, praga pode ser ainda mais devastadora do que no Sudeste Asiático. https://t.co/tfEbbrcIev
#engenhariaagronômica#vassouradebruxa
In the 2010s, a mysterious disease impacted cassava in SE Asia, threatening food security. 🌱
With #ACIAR support, researchers led by #CIAT identified the cause & developed tools to protect cassava crops & livelihoods.
Learn more: https://t.co/kxUT5GZe6u
🌾👩🔬We held a field trip to Lao PDR's National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute as part of Science Week in Vientiane. 💡
🔬 Cassava disease diagnostics
🌱 Seed systems and rapid multiplication tunnels
🦠 Crop screening
🌾 Climate-smart conservation
🤝 Gene banks
New Research: An emerging Platynota sp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) infesting blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in the central coast of Peru https://t.co/goxmVv3e56 #FrontiersIn#InsectScience
📢 Today, from Vientiane, Laos, we launch Science Week 2025! 🤝 Our annual event unites our scientists to share discoveries, discuss ambitions and renew our strategy. 🚀 Stay tuned as we share food for thought from discussions throughout the week! ��� #DreamBigForImpact
International Symposium on Tropical root and tuber crops will be held during 17-21 November 2025 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Please visit https://t.co/5WpjBQ8oOj
Registration and abstract submission started
In new studies published in "Scientific Reports and New Disease Reports", Dr. Wilmer Cuellar and his team from Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT have made strides in the fight against two of the most devastating diseases of Cassava, CFSD & CWBD
Source:
https://t.co/OUl8G7vIYI
This week the Cassava Crop Protection Team from @BiovIntCIAT_eng has been collaborating with FREDON French Guiana in the identification of #cassava diseases, as part of the recent phytosanitary alert in the region.
https://t.co/zuG51ZIF2o