Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Zachee Ngoko confirms many experts’ worst fears about a new taro disease in Cameroon: Our investigation, confirmed by CABI showed that P. colocassiae is the agent responsible in Cameroon from lab. analysis and rapid mount… But we are in the process of having more information on the situation with the help from CABI/Global Plant Clinic, …
The wires have been humming lately about a new disease cutting a swathe through Cameroon’s taro crop. It has been in the local news and on ProMed, as “undiagnosed disease.” There’s a discussion about it on PestNet, ((We’ve blogged about the great resource that is PestNet before.)) and some experts think it may be taro …
Readers with a long memory and a thing for root crops may remember our various posts over the past couple of years about an outbreak of Taro Leaf Blight in West Africa, and the promise that resistant varieties from the Pacific may hold for combating the epidemic. Well, our friends at the International Network of …
There’s a right and a wrong way to go about things. Grahame Jackson patiently spells out the right way for Cameroon to get blight-resistant taro: We have a world network for the improvement of edible aroids that includes, taro and cocoyam; Cameroon is not a member. But if someone in the government requested our help …
Zachee Ngoko answers (sort of) Afiniki Bawa Zarafi’s about the CABI Global Plant Clinic’s work on taro leaf blight. Taro blight (P. colocassiae) is still a threat to farmers and “Achu” and “Ekwan” consummers in Cameroon. In the Western Highlands (WHL) and South West regions, that crop is disappearing at an alarming rate. Eating habit …