This project is aimed to sustainably enhance the adoption, productivity and utilization of endophyte primed high pro-vitamin A plantain cultivars and hybrids in the context of...

The overall goal of this project is to investigate whether there is a rationale for a molecular-based breeding program on AMF to improve cassava productivity in Africa in the...

The project’s objectives are: (a) to identify, the best atoxigenic A. flavus strains for biocontrol; (b) to formulate the best atoxigenic A. flavus strains into a commercial...

This pilot project will create a niche market for aflatoxin-free maize that will deliver three critical preconditions that will enable further development of the market....

This data was collected under a project called “Sustainable Intensification of the Maize-Legume Systems of the Eastern Province of Zambia. The objective of the study was to...

Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is a serious threat to banana and plantain (Musa spp.) production. BBTD is caused by the Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV, genus Babuvirus) which...

Sustainable Enset farming systems for food security and livelihood improvement in Gamo highlands

IITA is implementing a baseline survey of Humid Tropic program in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi. The survey will serve not only as the baseline against which the HumidTropic program...

"IITA is implementing a baseline survey of Humid Tropic program in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi. The survey will serve not only as the baseline against which the HumidTropic...

"IITA is implementing a baseline survey of Humid Tropic program in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi. The survey will serve not only as the baseline against which the HumidTropic...

Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is a serious threat to banana and plantain (Musa spp.) production. BBTD is caused by the Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV, genus Babuvirus) which...

Scarcity of planting materials, pest and diseases are major constraints to yam production. The tissue culture techniques, meristem culture combined with heat therapy has been...

The Congo Basin Institute is a center of higher learning and scientific excellence in Central Africa. The Congo Basin Institute and the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife...

Genetic diversity and Genome-wide association study

CMS survey popular variety characterization experiment using 33 clones in Breeding season 2019-20 at Ikenne

Vitamin A deficiency, drought, low soil nitrogen (low N) and Striga hermonthica parasitism of maize (Zea mays L.) cause malnutrition and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa....

Landraces of maize (Zea mays L.) are invaluable sources of genetic variability for improving agronomic traits, and they hold great promise in developing new maize varieties with...

Cocoa mirids, Sahlbergella singularis and Distantiella theobroma, are the most economically important insect pests of cocoa in West and Central Africa, where they can cause up...

Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is a serious threat to banana and plantain (Musa spp.) production. BBTD is caused by the Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV, genus Babuvirus) which...

Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is a serious threat to banana and plantain (Musa spp.) production. BBTD is caused by the Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV, genus Babuvirus) which...