Cuban scientists visit UF

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.

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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Microbiome networks

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]

Food production in rubber plantations in Southern Mindanao

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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