“Dear colleagues

 The Endeavour Program is open again, with applications due by 30 June. Please circulate to your staff and students. Awards include

* scholarships for PhD and Masters study or post-doc research activities

* fellowship for short-term professional development...

With all the effort it takes to grow a food crop from seed to sale, it may be surprising that some farms in Brazil lose 10 to 12 percent of their yield at various points along the postharvest route. According...

ACIAR has issued its latest Partners in Research for Development magazine which focuses on nutrition in agricultural research for development.

The conventional wisdom: It is impossible to apply concentrated fertilizer solutions to seedlings without killing them. Eight years of AVRDC research has shown this is not true and that the first few days after transplanting are critical to later plant...

18-20 August 2014

• AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center
• International Society for Horticulture Science Vegetables Section, Working Group on Underutilized Plants, Commission on Plant Genetic Resources (ISHS)