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Cassava
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55066
Publication year
1981
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Full Citation
Cassava. 1981. In: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. CIAT in the 1980s: A long-range plan for the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. CIAT, Cali, CO. p. 5- 6, 13-39, 49-51, 65-85, 151-157, 170-172, 174, 180-181…
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Physiology
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82410
Publication year
1981
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Full Citation
Physiology.1981. In: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. Cassava Program: Annual Report 1984 . CIAT, Cali, CO. p. 33-57. (Working document no. 1)
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From fruit growth to ripening in plantain: a careful balance between carbohydrate synthesis and breakdown
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119584
Abstract
We investigated the fruit development in two plantain banana cultivars from two weeks after bunch emergence till twelve weeks through high-throughput proteomics, major metabolite quantification and metabolic flux analyses. We aimed to investigate for the first time different fruit development stages and gain unique insights into the order of appearance and dominance of specific enzymes…
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Insects and other bean pest in Latin America
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81697
Abstract
Pests may affect bean production, before and after harvest. (1) Those that attack bean seedlings are the seed corn maggot which causes poor germination and deformed seedlings. The most common genera of cutworms include Agrotis, Feltia and Spodoptera; white grubs and crickets also attack the seedlings. (2) Leaf-feeding insects: many species of chrysomelids attack beans. These…
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Human behaviour, the invisible link between climate and smallholder livelihoods
A new behavior-centered guide equips practitioners to design solutions for adoption of key behaviors with the biggest implications for climate change and smallholder farmers' livelihoods.
The world is currently being fed by more than 570 million farms worldwide. Most of them are small, operating…
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Emerging pests and diseases of Southeast Asian cassava: a comprehensive evaluation of geographic priorities, management options and research needs
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/71130
Abstract
Cassava is a major staple, bio‐energy and industrial crop in many parts of the developing world. In Southeast Asia, cassava is grown on >4 million ha by nearly 8 million (small‐scale) farming households, under (climatic, biophysical) conditions that often prove unsuitable…
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100 years of ecology: what are our concepts and are they useful
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80504
Abstract
On the occasion of the Ecological Society of America's centennial, we sought to learn which ecological concepts members value in terms of their utility. This required defining “concept,” and selecting concepts from current ecology textbooks that might arguably belong to a normative set. All ESA members were invited to participate in an online survey…
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Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/57489
Abstract
Crop models of crop growth are increasingly used to quantify the impact of global changes due to climate or crop management. Therefore, accuracy of simulation results is a major concern. Studies with ensembles of crop models can give valuable information about model accuracy and uncertainty, but such studies are difficult to organize and have only…
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Differences among rice cultivars in their adaptation to low ionic strength solution with toxic level of aluminum that mimics tropical acid soil conditions
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43658
Publication year
2015
Authors
Hossain Khan, M. Shahadat
Wagatsuma, Tadao
Akhter, Afrin
Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Evaluation report: An assessment of the Diversity for Restoration (D4R) Tool
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111078
Abstract
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) can play a key role to revert the loss of forests, while also contributing to an increased well-being of local livelihoods in deforested and degraded landscapes. As we start the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), FLR and ecosystem restoration, in general, are…
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Recalibrating the reported returns to agricultural R&D: what if we all heeded Griliches?
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119455
Abstract
Zvi Griliches’ seminal analysis of hybrid corn spawned a large literature seeking to quantify and demonstrate the value of agricultural research and development (R&D) investments. The most important metric for quantifying the rate of return to R&D emerging from this literature is the internal rate of return (IRR), even though Griliches was sceptical of its usefulness as a metric in this…
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Call to action for fit-for-purpose and resilient native tree seed systems that meet global forest and landscape restoration targets during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Chris J Kettle
Meeting forest and landscape restoration (FLR) targets during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is crucial for mitigating climate change, providing ecosystem services that support food and nutrition security, and halting…
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Constructing linkage maps in the genomics era with MapDisto 2.0
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82887
Abstract
Motivation: Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) generates datasets that are challenging to handle by current genetic mapping software with graphical interface. Geneticists need new user-friendly computer programs that can analyze GBS data on desktop computers. This requires improvements in computation efficiency, both in terms of speed and use of random-access…
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Index-based agricultural insurance products: challenges, opportunities and prospects for uptake in sub-Sahara Africa
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82897
Abstract
Agricultural insurance products have been piloted in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to address climate related risks faced by farmers. However, these products in general face low rates of adoption in SSA. Factors and challenges that may explain the low uptake of index-based insurance products in SSA are…
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Biological P cycling is influenced by the form of P fertilizer in an Oxisol
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83158
Abstract
Phosphate rock (PR) is an alternative fertilizer to increase the P content of P-deficient weathered soils. We evaluated the effects of fertilizer form on indicators of biological cycling of P using an on-farm trial on a Rhodic Kandiudox in western Kenya. Treatment plots were sampled after 13 cropping seasons of P applications as Minjingu…
