Seed systems

Kelsey Andersen presents her work at UF IFAS African research meeting

Kelsey Andersen presents about her work with sweetpotato seed networks in Uganda at a UF IFAS meeting for research in Africa Andersen, K. F., C. E. Buddenhagen, P. Rachkara, R. Gibson, S. Kalule, D. Phillips, and K. A. Garrett. 2018. Modeling epidemics in seed systems to guide management strategies: The case of sweetpotato in Northern Uganda. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/107359. Photo courtesy S. …

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CGIAR RTB seed systems meeting in Nairobi

CGIAR Roots, Tubers and Bananas meeting on seed systems in Nairobi in March.  Kelsey Andersen, Joubert Fayette, James Fulton, and Karen Garrett participate.  Good meeting to make progress with the next steps for implementing models such as these: Buddenhagen*, C. E.,  J. F. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, G. A. Forbes, P. Kromann, S. Thomas-Sharma, P. Useche, and K. A. Garrett. 2017. …

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Kelsey Andersen wins award for presentation at APS Southern Division meeting

Congratulations to Kelsey Andersen for winning the First Prize Graduate Student Research Award for her presentation at the APS Southern Division meeting!  She presented this work: Andersen, K. F., C. E. Buddenhagen, P. Rachkara, R. Gibson, S. Kalule, D. Phillips, and K. A. Garrett. 2018.  Modeling epidemics in seed systems to guide management strategies: The case of sweetpotato in Northern …

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Five new papers in Phytopathology focus issue on epidemiology

Phytopathology published a focus issue on epidemiology, that includes the following five papers that we have worked on: Buddenhagen*, C. E.,  J. F. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, G. A. Forbes, P. Kromann, S. Thomas-Sharma, P. Useche, and K. A. Garrett. 2017. Epidemic network analysis for mitigation of invasive pathogens in seed systems: Potato in Ecuador.  Phytopathology 107:1209-1218. [open access link] Choudhury, …

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RTB workshop at Wageningen University

Chris Buddenhagen, Robin Choudhury, and Karen Garrett presented a workshop on network analysis in R and contributed to a CGIAR RTB workshop on seed systems at Wageningen University last week. Robin and a group of RTB participants hiked to the middlepoint of the Netherlands in Lunteren (from bottom left clockwise: Kwame Ogero (CIP), Robin Choudhury (UF), Israel …

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