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Fighting the Black Death: International Research Award for Breeding Disease Resistant Plantains

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Title Fighting the Black Death: International Research Award for Breeding Disease Resistant Plantains
 
Creator CGIAR Secretariat
 
Description News release announcing that the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA ) today received the 1994 King Baudouin Award of the Consultative Group on Interational Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The award was given in recognition o f IITA’s pioneering research on breeding hybrid plantains resistant to black sigatoka--a devasta tin g disease o f plantain and banana (Muss spp.) in Africa--and for advances made in the genetics of Musu.
 
Date 1994-10-01
1994-10-01T00:00:01Z
1994-10-01T00:00:01Z
 
Type Internal Document
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10947/533
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf