Molecular geneticist Leena Tripathi provides an update on a collaborative work to develop a high-value product—the transgenic banana.

GIS tools could help governments, policymakers, and land use planners to manage their environments better by providing information on land degradation and use. Such information is useful for monitoring and for devising a strategy for natural resource management and conservation.

IITA scientists explain about the exciting new work in diagnostics using a combination of conventional biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics.

An underutilized leguminous species has huge potentials for food security in Africa. Read about IITA’s ongoing research on African yam bean.

IITA Virologist James Legg explains the progress of research on understanding the deadly relationship between the whitefly vectors and the viruses that are causing the destructive cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak diseases.

Information on the banana genome and molecular tools to map traits are lacking. IITA is mapping and characterizing new molecular markers for use in banana breeding and genetics.

What’s the connection? Leena Tripathi explains how IITA and partners are producing banana cultivars that are resistant to destructive nematodes and other pests.

Plants can be designed to order, like clothes. This article briefly outlines the progress of a collaborative research effort on “designing” pest-resistant cowpeas.

Economist Steffen Abele, based in IITA-Tanzania, discusses the challenges and potentials of marketing organic bananas sourced from Africa.

Banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is threatening the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in East Africa. What is IITA doing to hasten R4D in developing bananas resistant to major pests and diseases such as BXW?