Angelica Barlis of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT sums up a Dryland Congress panel: adapt technology locally, build it into institutions and measure use, not workshops.
CropsBrazil's Embrapa Florestas has opened licensing of four yerba mate cultivars, BRS 408, BRS 409, BRS BLD Aupaba and BRS BLD Yari, bred for different yields, shade tolerance and flavour.
FruitsResearchers in Bahia found the susceptibility gene MusaDMR6 surges after Fusarium infection, making it a candidate target for breeding or CRISPR editing.
Embrapa researchers isolated 14 strains of five Trichoderma species from native scrub and irrigated melon fields in Bahia and Piauí; strains from farmed soil kept growing at 35 °C, outcompeted Rhizoctonia and Macrophomina head-on and cut other pathogens' growth by more than 70% with volatile compoun
