CABI has been involved in identifying and combatting emerging fungal disease of plants for over 100 years and in doing so has built a wealth of resources to support farmers and practitioners in reducing crop loss. CABI does not achieve this alone - being an international, inter-governmental,...

In March 2017, a total of 52 dried-leaf samples of brassicaceous plants from the Philippine Highlands, one of which was a sample of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata), were submitted to Fera Science Ltd., via the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI). The plants were all ...

Background: Microbial resistance to medically important antibiotics is of international concern. There is considerable attention paid to the medical and veterinary use of antibiotics but there is a paucity of data on their use in global crop production. The only well documented use of antibiotics...

Azolla filiculoides Lamarck (Azollaceae) (water fern), is an invasive floating macrophyte capable of rapid growth leading to the complete coverage of water surfaces. The North American weevil Stenopelmus rufinasus, Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a biological control agent that has become...

In 2012, vegetable farmers in the Philippine highlands (Buguias and Benguet provinces) first observed unusual yellowing symptoms in Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) planted in their fields. The symptoms were pronounced vein clearing, vein yellowing and a bright yellow mosaic. Similar symptoms...

There is a growing opportunity to deliver mobile technology-based training on the diagnosis of plant health problems and to explore experiential learning through simulation in the developing world. Solving knowledge problems in plant health en masse would have a vast impact on global food security. ...

The Chinese government has increasingly opened up its agricultural extension sector over the last three decades in response to growing service demand, bringing many actors into the scene. One outcome has been the diversification of information sources for farmers, which now include agricultural...

Agricultural extension has been undergoing major changes. Changing policies, declining public funding, new thinking and approaches, climate change and other environmental factors pose major challenges to public sector extension services. Pre-packaged, crop and region-biased extension approaches...

The diagnosis of novel unidentified viral plant diseases can be problematic, as the conventional methods such as real-time PCR or ELISA may be too specific to a particular species or even strain of a virus, whilst alternatives such as electron microscopy (EM) or sap inoculation of indicator species ...