Looking to understand, predict, and manage viral disease epidemics in crops like #cassava?🌱🦠📊 Check out the blog post introducing tools from Ruairí and Israël.
#Ecology #PlantEpidemiology #InsectVectors
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social #UMR-IGEPP
methodsblog.com/2026/02/21/m...
The dynamics of agricultural pests: leveraging data from genome to landscapes 🌱🪲🐛🪰
Hear from @drrenataretkute.bsky.social and Dr Henry North this Friday.
#FoodSecurity #CropProtection
How to predict and prevent #cassava viral epidemics? 🌱 💻 Ruairi Donnelly & Israël Tankam Chedjou developed tools to model disease spread and optimise crop mixtures for this vital #FoodSecurity crop.
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/managin...
@camplantsci.bsky.social #UMR-IGEPP
#CropProtection
Cost-effective early detection of banana bunchy top disease: insights from spatio-temporal modelling in Benin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
Now published: Evaluating a landscape-scale model to forecast wheat stem rust
with @metoffice.gov.uk @cimmyt.bsky.social and #EIAR 🇪🇹
Funded by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social #FCDO
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Excited to share Renata's new study in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social on #banana bunchy top virus in West Africa! 🍌🛰️📊
Led by @drrenataretkute.bsky.social with collaborators across Benin 🇧🇯 IITA and University of Queensland
#PlantHealth #FoodSecurity #Epidemiology
Aerial photography of farmland. Photo by Tom Fisk.
Could the way we arrange crops boost future food security?
New work from @camplantepidem.bsky.social looks at how crop layout in landscapes can dramatically slow plant disease spread without relying on chemicals or costly interventions.
tinyurl.com/353tb8jw
@suprunenkoyf.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Our wheat rust forecast tool is part of #DEWAS 🌾
Surveillance + diagnostics + forecasting + training = transnational rust response
Protecting wheat across 8+ countries in Africa & South Asia
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=OGdE...
@cimmyt.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
#PlantSci #FoodSecurity
A huge thanks also to the funders over the years that enabled the transformation of #wheat disease #research ideas into a daily #forecast system with impact: @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
#FCDO
@ukri.org
#BBSRC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNoG...
How can farmers use models to prevent wheat disease?
Watch the video from @camplantepidem.bsky.social to see how subsistence farmers across Africa & South Asia can use forecasting models to protect their crops.
📽️ tinyurl.com/3yecskf4
Funded by @cambridgefestival.bsky.social 🙏
🧪#PlantSci
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @au.dk
Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust.
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
Banana seed enterprise in Rwanda. Photo credit: Dr Aman Bonaventure Omondi.
New climate resilience & sustainability project co-led by @drrenataretkute.bsky.social with @bioversityciat.bsky.social aims to protect banana production in Africa from crop disease.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2dutb4h2
#PlantSci 🧪
@cam.ac.uk
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
@camplantepidem.bsky.social
We celebrate a team member's success!
Renata @drrenataretkute.bsky.social has received a BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Award to work with the Australian Plague Locust Commission on improved forecasting & management in Australia.
@camplantsci.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social
