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Stakeholders claim potato seed production declined after land in Tigoni on the outskirts of Nairobi city and Molo was grabbed. Despite good rainfall in most potato growing areas of Kenya, the potato industry is facing a serious shortage of the commodity ...
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Posted: 2010-02-03 at 04:44
After more than 20 years of plant research, Prof. Mark Bridgen, horticulture, has developed and patented a new species of flower at Cornell’s Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center. The “Tangerine Tango” is an alstroemeria, commonly ...
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Posted: 2010-02-03 at 04:36
Jozef Van Assche, Executive Director of the International Society for Horticultural Science, delivered an invited speech in Bloemfontein, South Africa (University of the Free State) on the occasion of the SASHS Combined Congress 2010 from January 18-21, ...
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Posted: 2010-02-03 at 01:56
Scientists from the Plant Sciences Group of Wageningen UR in the Netherlands and the Brazilian research organisation Embrapa have developed a rapid DNA diagnostic to test banana plants for the much-feared cause of the Panama disease. Published in the ...
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Posted: 2010-01-29 at 10:50
VII International Symposium on Light in Horticulture October 8-11, 2012, Wageningen (Netherlands). Light plays an important role in market-oriented greenhouse production. Products have to be ready for the market on time with the desired volume and ...
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Posted: 2010-01-21 at 04:12
Over the last couple of weeks the following Acta Horticulturae titles have been released: Acta Horticulturae 845; VII International Congress on Hazelnut (ISBN 9789066057128 ), Acta Horticulturae 846; VII International Workshop on Sap Flow ...
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Posted: 2010-01-18 at 08:07
Call for Abstracts for the 28th International Horticulture Congress (IHC), Lisbon, Portugal, 22-27 August, 2010 :: NEW Deadline: January 31, 2010 :: For online abstract submission go to www.ihc2010.org IHC 2010, the most relevant conference under the ...
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Posted: 2010-01-12 at 03:53
Photo: Mr. Clement Gignac, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of the Quebec Government, presenting the Prix Lionel-Boulet to Dr. André Gosselin. Photo by courtesy of Rémi Boily. The highest distinction granted by the ...
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Posted: 2010-01-08 at 08:27
Bringing food production much closer to home makes sense. As our population becomes more urbanised, the environmental and financial impacts of transporting produce to our suburbs have risen. Meanwhile, traditional agricultural belts are facing the ...
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Posted: 2010-01-05 at 09:08
More than 30 academics are facing redundancy at the University of Warwick following a decision to close its renowned horticulture research centre. Warwick HRI, formerly Horticulture Research International, is to close its 192-acre site at Wellesbourne ...
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Posted: 2009-12-22 at 01:33
Markets for banana and tropical fruits underwent impressive expansions in the past few decades on the back of sustained global economic growth. This paper examines how the recent recession has affected, and given the lag in recovery,
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Posted: 2009-12-21 at 12:45
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon conduct the 2009 Census of Horticultural Specialties. Taken once every 10 years, this census provides detailed information on horticultural production and sales across the United States. “The Census of ...
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Posted: 2009-12-15 at 09:12
China has set up its first national seed bank as part of the country’s efforts to protect biodiversity. The Southwest China Germplasm Bank of Wild Species was declared operational at an opening ceremony 24 November, 2009. The seed bank, ...
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Posted: 2009-12-14 at 01:43
Rising sea levels, ocean warming, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change is set to hit hard food security in the Pacific islands, the FAO said, urging governments to take immediate actions. Climate change is expected to act as
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Posted: 2009-12-08 at 10:43
Delaware (USA): The new hot major? Agriculture… Program offers diverse job opportunities for grads. Kishana Williamson loves dolphins and, strangely enough, the marine mammals are the reason the University of Delaware senior spends her days ...
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Posted: 2009-12-08 at 09:35
Many urban workers across Africa are increasing their incomes through absentee agriculture. With prices for basic foodstuffs at their highest levels in decades, many urbanites feel well rewarded by farming. Absentee agriculture also
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Posted: 2009-12-08 at 09:32
Over sixty of the world’s most prominent agricultural scientists and leading thinkers in development issued a warning about the almost total absence of agriculture in talks leading up to the UN Climate Change Conference. Signatories of the ...
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Posted: 2009-12-07 at 02:57
The December 2009 Newsletter of the Commission Molecular Biology and In Vitro Culture is available for download from the ISHS Scientific Structure pages at www.ishs.org/science
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Posted: 2009-12-02 at 09:43
An ancient herbal mint tea from Brazil is as effective at delivering pain relief as commercial medicine, according to university researchers. Brews from the plant, hyptis crenata, have traditionally been used by native Latin American healers to cure ...
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Posted: 2009-12-01 at 08:50
The November 2009 issue (number 4) of the ISHS Commission Education, Research Training and Consultancy Newsletter is available for download from the ISHS Scientific Structure pages at www.ishs.org/science/
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Posted: 2009-11-30 at 08:46
The 2010 World Tulip Summit is being held April 13-15, 2010 in Washington State’s beautiful Skagit Valley. The World Tulip Summit has historically hosted international delegates representing Canada, USA, UK, France, Australia, Japan, and many other ...
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Posted: 2009-11-26 at 08:56
A public-private partnership intends to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. However, critics say it is destroying forests with no regard for
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Posted: 2009-11-20 at 12:44
China is sending its farming expertise to Mozambique in a drive to increase the African country's agricultural productivity. The Chinese Agricultural Technology Research and Transfer Centre is being built close to the capital
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Posted: 2009-11-20 at 12:44
NEW EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CODE OF NOMENCLATURE FOR CULTIVATED PLANTS, Published by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) in the series Scripta Horticulturae. Scripta Horticulturae 10, 204 pages, October 2009 (ISSN 1813-9205) ...
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Posted: 2009-11-12 at 02:57
Clippings from experimental grapevines with high earning potential were taken from the University of Minnesota’s Horticultural Research Center in Victoria, Minn. in what police say may be an inside job. The 5-year-old vines are a result of generations of ...
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Posted: 2009-11-10 at 11:10
The New Zealand Government and the kiwifruit industry will invest almost $36 million over seven years to research plant breeding and new varieties. The $35.7 million dollar investment into the combined Zespri and Plant&Food; Research programme ...
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Posted: 2009-11-10 at 10:59
A complete set of photos taken on the occasion of the V International Symposium on Seed , Transplant and Stand Establishment: Integrating Methods for Producing More with Less, Murcia, Spain, September-October 2009 is now available online at ...
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Posted: 2009-11-06 at 11:56
Cuban farmers started sowing a new variety of pineapple that triples the yield of previous ones and has higher concentrations of sugar and vitamin C, according to experts. Known as MD-2, the species is capable of
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Posted: 2009-11-04 at 03:42
ACDI/VOCA is currently seeking a senior Zimbabwean agronomist to help manage an 18-month project funded by USAID that aims to support the improved production and marketing of staple crops and horticulture. Specifically, the program
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Posted: 2009-11-04 at 02:43
A new Working Group: Composting for Horticultural Applications, is now available under the framework of the ISHS Commission Sustainability through Integrated and Organic Horticulture. The new Working Group is chaired by Dr. Michael Raviv. For ...
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Posted: 2009-11-04 at 11:41
Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), call for Immediate Impact Pre-proposals (Deadline November 15, 2009). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected the University of California, Davis, to manage a ...
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Posted: 2009-11-01 at 08:59
Wine companies are being forced to close their businesses and abandon vineyards as demand for their product dries up. South Australia’s wine industry has plunged into a deep crisis that threatens to claim hundreds of jobs. Great Southern, ...
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Posted: 2009-10-22 at 08:34
Faster access to new plant varieties and processes will help horticulture producers remain innovative and competitive. The Governments of Canada and Ontario will invest $15.6 million in the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (VRIC) to coordinate and ...
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Posted: 2009-10-20 at 11:54
Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he obtained his doctoral degree at Wageningen University ...
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Posted: 2009-10-17 at 08:08
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at the 2009 World Food Prize in Des Moine, IA (USA) urged governments, donors, researchers, farmer groups, environmentalists, and others to set aside old divisions and join forces to ...
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Posted: 2009-10-16 at 04:30
The 1st all-Africa horticulture congress took place between the 31st of August and the 3rd of September, 2009, in Nairobi, Kenya. Please click on the link to read the final communique of the congress and the draft resolutions that
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Posted: 2009-10-15 at 11:42
Bill Gates, global agricultural ministers, UN agency leaders gather to honor legacy of Dr. Borlaug at the 2009 World Food Prize in Des Moines, IA (USA). This year’s Borlaug Dialogue features over 45 speakers from more than 15 countries ...
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Posted: 2009-10-14 at 04:03
The preliminary edition of the International Cocoa Awards will be held on 14 and 15 October 2009 at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris, 14-18 October 2009, Porte de Versailles, Hall 5-1 (professional show). It is intended ...
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Posted: 2009-10-14 at 12:00
CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) reforms make research decision-making distant. CGIAR reforms take research decisions too far away, says Hartmann, director-general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture ...
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Posted: 2009-10-08 at 02:24
Communities blighted by water hyacinth may soon view the aquatic weed as an asset rather than a scourge, thanks to a technique devised in the Philippines to turn the plant into a textile. Scientists from the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) at ...
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Posted: 2009-10-07 at 02:48
Just prior to the ISHS Board meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa (October 2-3, 2009) a delegation of the ISHS Board attended the African Crops Science Society Conference in Cape Town (South Africa). The conference theme was “Science and technology ...
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Posted: 2009-10-05 at 09:56
Over the last couple of weeks the following Acta Horticulturae titles have been released: ActaHorticulturae 840; I International Jujube Symposium (ISBN 9789066055926 ), Acta Horticulturae 841; II International Symposium on Human Health ...
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Posted: 2009-10-04 at 08:31
This new agroforestry study was released at the opening of the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry. It shows that almost half of all farmed landscapes worldwide include significant tree cover. This is the first study to quantify the
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Posted: 2009-09-29 at 03:43
- New Working Group: Genetically Modified Plants, Chairperson: Ms. Adri Veale - Section Banana and Plantain: New Chairperson and Vice-Chair: Dr. Stephan Weise and Dr. Jim Lorenzen - Working Group Preservation and Exploitation of the Genetic ...
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Posted: 2009-09-28 at 08:22
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), an international group of scientists has announced that it has released the first draft sequence of the potato genome. The PGSC started work on the project three years ago. The resulting ...
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Posted: 2009-09-22 at 02:07
‘African farmers will play a major part in the solution of climate change mitigation,’ predicts Dennis Garrity, head of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). ‘Deforestation contributes to 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Posted: 2009-09-18 at 10:43
A guide to processing mangoes, from fruit supply to marketing the dried product.
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Posted: 2009-09-16 at 12:00
The book edited by Damiano Avanzato, is structured by organic and simple country cards and chestnut descriptions enabling to reveal many important aspects of the species, including, phytogeographic, cultural, economic, technical knowledge, all interpreted ...
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Posted: 2009-09-15 at 03:52
Kenya successfully hosted the first All Africa Horticulture Congress in Nairobi at the Safari Park Hotel. Attendance (with over 400 participants) exceeded expectations. ISHS was formally represented at this event by Jozef Van Assche, Executive Director ...
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Posted: 2009-09-05 at 09:30
The ISHS Commission, Horticultural Economics and Management is pleased to announce the introduction of an annual award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Horticultural Economics and Management. The International Society for Horticultural Science ...
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Posted: 2009-09-03 at 09:35
