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Managing micro-organisms to enhance plant health for sustainable banana production in Eastern Africa

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Coordinating organisation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Description: Goal:
Exploiting microbial interactions for enhanced banana plant health and productivity

Outputs:
- To find, test and apply microbial antagonists to control banana pests and diseases such as banana weevil, plant parasitic
nematodes and Fusarium wilt
- To establish modes of action, persistence, distribution and competition among different species and strains
Budget (in &euro): 1124842
Start: 2005-01-01
End: 2007-12-31
Species: banana
Categories
ARD-theme: biotechnology
Target country: Kenya
South Africa
Uganda
Commodity: fruit
Activity: research
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Donor organisations: 1
Participating organisations: 5
Programmes funding: 1


Last editing: 2006-06-06 11:16:38