… Preliminary efforts to detect CBSVs in more than 60 alternative host plants in Uganda have
been unsuccessful (G. Okao-Okuja, unpublished data), but more comprehensive studies with …

During the 1990s, an epidemic of cassava mosaic virus disease caused major losses to cassava
production in Uganda. Two factors associated with the epidemic were the occurrence of …

The greatest current threat to cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, is the continued expansion of
plant virus pandemics being driven by super-abundant populations of the whitefly vector, …

In this case study we successfully teamed the PDQeX DNA purification technology developed
by MicroGEM, New Zealand, with the MinION and MinIT mobile sequencing devices …

A study was carried out to assess the effect of different cassava mosaic geminiviruses (CMGs)
occurring in Uganda on the growth and yield of the susceptible local cultivar ‘…

… Figure 3 shows clades labeled A–G which correspond to; 1) labels AF from Ndunguru et
al. , and 2) a new clade G defined in this study. Within the CBSV clade, there are several …

… Between 0.02 g and 0.05 g dried leaf sample was removed from the pressed newsprint,
placed into a 2 ml screwcap tube and ground with a sterile ceramic bead to a fine powder using …

Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) are two viral
diseases that cause severe yield losses in cassava of up to 100%, thereby persistently …

A survey was conducted in 2007 to obtain information on the distribution, incidence and
severity of cassava pests and diseases in Rwanda, and determine how these parameters relate …

The United Nations has listed Zero Hunger as one of the 17 global sustainable development
goals to end extreme poverty by 2030. Plant viruses are a major constraint to crop …