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African scientists receive fellowships

Two banana specialists working under the supervision of Bioversity scientists have received Borlaug LEAP Fellowships awarded by the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service to developing country researchers.
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A safe home for Congo plantains

The first batch of plantains from the Congo basin has safely arrived at the International Transit Centre (ITC) in Leuven, Belgium, where the plants will be cultured and made available for distribution as soon as they are given a clean bill of health. In due course, they will become part of the collection of banana diversity held 'in trust' for humanity and also cryopreserved for safe, long-term storage.

Rescuing banana germplasm

The Global Crop Diversity Trust has made an emergency grant to the Institute of Plant Breeding – National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory (IPB-NPGRL) to repair damage to its field collections caused by the typhoon ‘Milenyo’ that hit the Philippines in September 2006.
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The banana exhibit goes to Washington

On 3-5 December, the traveling exhibit No end to the banana will be showcased at the Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The meeting will be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, in Washington DC.
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Panama disease: a renewed threat in Asia

Fusarium wilt of banana, the notorious Panama disease that wiped out the plantations of Gros Michel export banana and led to its replacement by resistant Cavendish bananas in the second half of the twentieth Century is back-and with a vengeance!
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