Cassava Varieties Bred with Resistance to Cassava Brown Streak Disease
May 4, 2007| |
Cassava varieties resistant to cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) have been developed by scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with their counterparts at the National Agricultural Research Systems in Tanzania. This is good news for African farmers who suffer as much as 80% yield losses in cassava production to CBSD. This dreaded root rot-causing disease has been ravaging the cassava belt in the Great Lake region.
Dr Edward Kanju, IITA cassava plant breeder, and Mr Haji Saleh, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Kizimbani, Zanzibar, say that "The farmers involved in the participatory breeding project ‘drove’ the government to officially release the CBSD field-resistant cultivars. The challenge is now to replace the susceptible plants with the newly released resistant varieties."
Read the full news article at http://www.iita.org/cms/details/news_details.aspx?articleid=1004&zoneid=81.
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