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New
Publications
2006 Annual Report
 See
the latest progress report of the Crop and Agroecosystem Health
Management Project, which presents project research highlights
during 2006, as well as detailed descriptions of its major
activities.
Download the executive
summary (526 kb).
Download the report.
Cassava-Mealybug
Interactions
 Most
basic information on plant-mealybug interactions during the
last decade has come from research on the cassava, Manihot
esculenta Crantz (Euphorbiaceae) system and two mealybug
species, namely Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero
and Phenacoccus herreni Cox and
Williams (Sternorrhyncha : Pseudococcidae). Both insects cause
severe damage to cassava in Africa and South
America, respectively.
This book,
published by the Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement (IRD),
France,
reviews these interactions (plant selection by the insects,
nutritional requirements, influence of climate, intrinsic
and extrinsic plant-defence mechanisms). It is useful to entomologists,
crop scientists, agronomists, and ecologists as well as teachers
and students.
The book is available on request to the edition's service
of IRD (editions@paris.ird.fr).
Contact: Paul
Calatayud
Managing
the Whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum in String and
Field Beans
 The biology and management of the
whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum in string and field
beans: a technical manual is now available for agronomists
and technicians in Latin America. Likewise, three primers
on this worldwide, persistent pest, written for farmers in
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, have also just been published.
 The
publications are part of a strategy to disseminate research
results from the project on the Sustainable integrated management
of whiteflies as pests and vectors of plant viruses in the
tropics, financed by the British Department for International
Development (DFID).
Coordinated by CIAT, the project is executed by CIAT's
Bean Entomology (Colombia), the Corporación Grupo Randi Randi
(Ecuador), and the PROINPA Foundation
(Bolivia).
For queries on electronic copies
of the publications, contact Isaura Rodríguez at irodriguez@cgiar.org
Whitefly and Whitefly-borne Viruses
in the Tropics: Building a Knowledge Base for Global Action
 A book on whiteflies
and whitefly-borne viruses in the tropics has just been published.
This
publication describes the impact that whiteflies and their
viruses-regarded as two of the worst crop pests of all times-have
on agricultural sustainability, ecosystem health, and human
health.
The
book has five sections, with 54 chapters, and compiles the
collective knowledge gathered during three decades of research
conducted in different countries by a multidisciplinary team
engaged in combating the whitefly.
 Download the
publication from the Tropical Whitefly IPM Project Web
site.
Contact:
Francisco Morales
Announcements
Publication Now On-Line
La
Yuca en el Tercer Milenio: Sistemas Modernos de Producción,
Procesamiento, Utilización y Comercialización
[Cassava in the Third Millennium: Modern Systems of Production,
Processing, Utilization, and Marketing]
 This
publication offers technicians, farmers, researchers, and
universities up-to-date information on the progress made on
the cassava crop in the last 3 decades. In particular,
the production, processing, marketing, and use of cassava
in Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed. The
last collection of information was published in 1985. Since
then, progress has been achieved not only in traditional fields,
but also in new fields such as biotechnology, molecular biology,
geographic information systems, biological control, and systems
of rapid multiplication of planting materials. Through
the emergence of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium
to Support Cassava Research and Development (CLAYUCA)
in 1999, strategic alliances between public and private companies
were established, thus facilitating the generation and adaptation
of appropriate technologies for specific problem-solving areas.
Download the
publication from the Clayuca Web site.
Guía Práctica para el Manejo de las Enfermedades, las Plagas
y las Deficiencias Nutricionales de la Yuca
[Practical Guide for Managing Diseases, Pests, and
Nutritional Deficiencies in Cassava]
 This guide is designed as the
visual complement of the book La Yuca en el Tercer Milenio:
Sistemas Modernos de Producción, Procesamiento, Utilización
y Comercialización. While emphasizing Colombia and
other Latin American countries, it provides detailed information
on the scientific names, economic importance, biology, and
habits of insects associated with cassava; integrated pest
management (IPM); diseases; and nutritional deficiencies and
toxicities found in many of the region’s soils. The
guide therefore aims to serve phytopathologists, entomologists,
and crop nutritionists, as well as others interested in field
problems of the cassava crop.
Download the guidebook
in PDF from the CLAYUCA Web site.
Awards
Agro-Bio
Award for Dr. Lee Calvert and Team
The project "Identification of microsatellite molecular
markers in rice for resistance to Tagosodes orizicolus"
won third place of the Prize Semilleros DNA Agro-Bio 2006.
Agro-Bio is a non-profit organization for the advancement
of education, investigation, development, production, and
commercialization of Biotechnology for Colombian agriculture.
Luz Elena Romero, Iván Lozano Potes, and Natalia Villareal
executed this project under the direction of Dr. Lee Calvert
at CIAT.
Friendship Award for Dr. Segenet Kelemu
 Dr.
Segenet Kelemu has been conferred the 2006 "Friendship
Award" by the State Administration of Foreign Experts
Affairs, authorized by the State Council of the People's Republic
of China. Selected from more than 200,000 foreigners working
in China, 46 experts received the award, the highest honour
that the Chinese Government can confer on foreigners.
The
winners, from 19 countries, have expertise in a wide range
of fields. Dr. Kelemu was the only CGIAR representative
to win the award this year.
ASCOLFI Award for Dr. Fernando Correa and Team
For work they presented in 2005, CIAT staff and professionals
were awarded the National Pirze of Phytopathology "Rafael
Obregón" during the XXVI Congress of the Colombian Society
of Phytopathology and related sciences (ASCOLFI), held in
Cartagena, 12-16 September 2006.
The price was conferred to Fernando José Correa Victoria,
Fabio Escobar, Gustavo Prado, Girlena Aricapa, Myriam Cristina
Duque, and Jorge Luis Fuentes, nominated by their work entitled:
"Identification of microsatellite markers linked to Pyricularia
grisea resistance genes in rice". This award is sponsored
by BAYER CropScience.
Four Prizes Go to CIAT Staff and Students
 For
work they presented in 2004, CIAT staff and their students
were awarded four prizes during the XXXII Congress
of the Colombian Society of Entomology (SOCOLEN), held in
Ibagué, 27-29 July 2005.
For "the best work presented by professionals":
- The "Hernán Alcaráz Viecco National Prize of Entomology",
supported by Bayer CropScience S.A. The winners were Juan
Miguel Bueno, César Cardona, and Patricia Chacón de Ulloa
for their paper on a whitefly: Phenology, spatial distribution
and development of sampling methods for Trialeurodes
vaporariorum (Westwood) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) on snap
beans and beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). This
prize has now been won by CIAT researchers for five
years consecutively.
- "Honorable Mention" (third place) for the "Hernán
Alcaráz Viecco Prize". The winners were Arturo Carabalí,
Anthony C. Bellotti, and James Montoya-Lerma for their paper:
Comparing the adaptability of biotype B of Bemisia
tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodiade) to commercial cassava
(Manihot esculenta Crantz) Mcol 2063 and to wild
M. carthaginensis.
- "Honorable Mention" (third place) for the "Luis
Hernando Pino Santiago Prize", supported by LAVERLAM
S.A. The winners were Elsa L. Melo, Carlos Alberto Ortega,
Alper Susurluk, Andreas Gaigl, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, and Anthony
C. Bellotti for their paper: Search for native populations
of entomopathogenic nematodes in regions of Colombia and
Panama.
For "the best work presented by students":
- "Second place" for the "Francisco Luis
Gallego Prize", supported by Dupont de Colombia S.A.
The winners were Paola Andrea Sotelo, César Cardona, Guillermo
Sotelo, and James Montoya-Lerma for their undergraduate
thesis presented to the biology academic program, Faculty
of Sciences, Universidad del Valle, in the area of forage
entomology. It was entitled Resistance of Brachiaria
spp. to the spittlebug: sub-lethal effects of resistant
cultivars on adult Aeneolamia varia (F.) (Homoptera:
Cercopidae). Area leader was Dr. César Cardona.
See the list of presentations and
download the posters
CIAT Partner Wins CGIAR Award
 The Colombian Federation of Plantain Producers (FEDEPLATANO)
received the Innovation Marketplace Award for Outstanding
Innovative Partnership Program from the CGIAR during
its recent annual general meeting held in Mexico City. The
award recognized FEDEPLATANO's novel approach for devising,
in close collaboration with farmers as well as with CIAT,
the Colombian Institute for Agriculture and Livestock (ICA),
and the Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (CORPOICA),
effective methods for detecting and managing a bacterial wilt
disease called Moko (literally "mucus" in English).
The disease poses a serious threat to Colombia's plantain
production, causing total crop loss in many places.
See the CGIAR press
release
Download
the related poster
(in Spanish, 531 kb).
For more
information (in Spanish), download the project
description (146 kb)
What
the Press Say about Us
Seed protein has broad biocidal effect
IPMnet NEWS
April/May 2006, Issue no. 146
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the news item
CIAT works on new biopesticide
CropBiotech Update
March 31, 2006
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Plantas, fuente de plaguicidas
Investigación del CIAT en busca de agricultura limpia
El Tiempo, Colombia
18 de febrero de 2006
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Finotin, a promising new biopesticide
New Agriculturist
1st January 2006
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the news item
Un técnico con mucha 'madera'
Guillermo Castellanos vive en la ciudad desde hace 35 años
Semanario Palmira Hoy, Colombia
10 de septiembre de 2005
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Welcome to our new IAPPS Board Member
IAPPS NEWSLETTER
Number VII, July 2005
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Un remedio natural para los cultivos de flores, frijol
y café
El producto nació de la observación de un técnico agrícola
del CIAT
El Tiempo, Colombia
5 de marzo de 2005
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Planta para los cercos acaba con hongos
Novedoso biofungicida sale de laboratorios del CIAT
El Tiempo-Cali, Colombia
1 de marzo de 2005
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Biotechnology and the Africa hunger problem
Business Day, Nigeria
14 December 2004
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the news item (264 kb)
Hongos milagrosos en pastos tropicales
El Mercurio, Ecuador
7 de octubre de 2004
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Descubren hongos "milagrosos" en pastos tropicales
Noticiero Agropecuario, Venezuela
21 de septiembre de 2004
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Guerra a larva que no da la cara
El Tiempo, Colombia
8 de abril de 2004
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Advierten por peligros de larvas de cucarrones en cultivos
El Tiempo, Colombia
24 de marzo de 2004
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African Biotech Media Contacts
AfricaBiotech.com
Consult the Project Web site
Contact information and biography - Segenet Kelemu, PhD
AfricaBiotech.com
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