by Sean Mattson | Apr 9, 2019
The discovery of genes responsible for asexual reproduction in a tropical grass may reduce negative impacts of cattle farming. The grass captures carbon, reduces gas emissions from soils, restores degraded land, and improves cattle health and productivity. Cattle are...
by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 6, 2019
María Elker Montoya started her career as a Research Assistant at the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR, for its Spanish initials) and is currently a member of the Phenotyping Platform team at CIAT. She developed a method to identify different stages of...
by José Luis Urrea | Jan 18, 2019
By Pat Heslop-Harrison, University of Leicester (with collaborators listed below) Tropical grassland grazing by cattle provides food for millions of people, and livelihoods for huge numbers of farmers and smallholders in developing countries. Pastures and rangelands...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 14, 2018
A total of 200 participants, 70 oral presentations, 170 scientific posters on display, two culinary demonstrations, more than a dozen specialized sessions, visits to laboratories and field trials from the cassava program at CIAT, a new president of the ISTRC, and a...
by Maria Fernanda Mejia | Oct 25, 2018
Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease in Southeast Asia ; In December 2015, a journal publication reported evidence of Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) in a single plantation in Ratanakiri province in northeast Cambodia. This was the first time that Cassava Mosaic...