Combating the unseen enemy of yam

Fathiya, Mbarak Khamis

dc.contributor.author	Fathiya, Mbarak Khamis
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-11T13:06:17Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-11T13:06:17Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12562/1834
dc.description	PUBLICATION	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are responsible for substantial yield and post-harvest losses in yam production among smallholders in Africa. A seed wrap technology provides a low-cost, nature-based solution. Food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) largely depends on subsistence farming, but previous studies1 have casted doubt on this system’s ability to keep up with the twofold population increase projected for the region by 2050 (ref. 2). Among several biotic and abiotic factors hampering SSA’s agricultural production are pests and diseas...	en_US
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dc.publisher	Nature Food	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	Food security	en_US
dc.subject	sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)	en_US
dc.subject	yam	en_US
dc.title	Combating the unseen enemy of yam	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US