Tag Archives: Seed systems

This is a presentation on detecting virus infections on plants by examining their leaves. The data is supported by images of leaves infected with different viruses.

Sweet potato is globally the second most economically important root crop after potato and is an important food security crop in many of the poorest regions of the world including sub-Saharan Africa. Root crops are unusually important relative to cereals in Africa In East Africa, sweet potato is grown predominantly …

This brief is a brief presentation of the work that the SASHA project is undertaking to  develop sustainable sweetpotato seed systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of this work is devoted to developing and testing strategies to ensure effective multiplication, dissemination, and exchange of disease-free planting material (vines) of improved varieties. …