James Fulton recently returned from Haiti, where he is developing plans for his work as part of the USAID-funded UF/IFAS project, Support to Agricultural Research and Development (SARD).
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Congratulations to Ravin Poudel, selected as a participant in the recent Symposium of the Society of Young Network Scientists!
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Congrats to James Fulton for being selected to participate in the Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security!
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Scientists from Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal (INISAV), a Cuban institution with responsibility for plant health research, visited UF last week to discuss current and future collaboration. There are a lot of common interests in Caribbean pest and disease risk.
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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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Robin Choudhury presented at the 2017 meeting of the Florida Phytopathological Society, discussing a systems analysis of laurel wilt management for avocado in Florida. For background on laurel wilt: Ploetz, R. C., Kendra, P. E., Choudhury, R. A., Rollins, J. A., Campbell, A., Garrett, K., Hughes, M., and Dreaden, T. 2017. Laurel wilt in natural
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Congratulations to Ravin Poudel and coauthors on this recent paper, downloaded over 3000 times. Poudel, R., A. Jumpponen, D. C. Schlatter, T. C. Paulitz, B. McSpadden Gardener, L. L. Kinkel, and K. A. Garrett. 2016. Microbiome networks: A systems framework for identifying candidate microbial assemblages for disease management. Phytopathology 106:1083-1096. [open access link]
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Collaborators from CIAT-Hanoi and Tay Nguyen University (honorary gators) are studying cassava production in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam. Cassava mosaic disease is a new threat to production in the region.
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Rice and mungbean intercropping in rubber plantations has the potential to increase household food security. Hondrade*, R. F., Hondrade*, E., Zheng*, L., Elazegui, F., Duque, J., Mundt, C. C., Vera Cruz, C. M., and Garrett, K. A. 2017. Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: A rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped
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