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Cacao pod researchers

UF/IFAS researchers work to prevent a disease threatening your favorite chocolate

by Megan Winslow
February 10, 2025

As you nibble on a chocolate truffle or bite into a chocolate-dipped strawberry on Valentine’s Day, consider the elongated, ribbed pods of the cacao tree, which made that sweet treat possible. A group of UF/IFAS plant pathologists has partnered ... READ MORE

Category: Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, Black Bottom Rot, Black Pod Rot, Cacao, CATIE, Chocolate, Costa Rica, Disease, Erica Goss, Farming, IFAS, Inoculate, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jeremy Brawner, Lab, Lesion, Mariana Herrera Corzo, Mars, Megan Winslow, Phytophthora, Phytophthora Megakarya, Plant Pathology, Plant Pathology Department, Research, Tropical Agricultural Research And Higher Education Center, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida, Valentine's Day
• Oocysts – A close-up image of matured oocysts on a midgut of Anopheles gambiae mosquito.

¿Puede el cambio climático acelerar la transmisión de la malaria? Una investigación pionera revela los impactos de la temperatura

by Luz Bahder
April 24, 2024

Creado por Lourdes Mederos, gerente de relaciones públicas en español para el Departamento de Comunicaciones de UF/IFAS. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud, durante el año 2022 aproximadamente 249 millones de casos de malaria ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, Anopheles Gambiae, Cambio Climatico, Cepas De Patogenos, Clima, Dia Internacional Del Paludismo, Enfermedad, Enfermedades Transmitidas Por Vectores, Espanol, Estudio, Eunho Suh, Extremos Termicos, Instituto De Investigacion Cientifica Para Especies Invasoras, Investigacion, Isaac Stopard, ISRI, Kenia, Malaria, Matthew Thomas, Modelaje, Mosquito, Niveles De Transmision, Paludismo, Parasitos, Patogenos, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Vivax, Rasgos De Vida, Spanish, Temperatura, Transmision De Enfermedades, UF/IFAS

UF partners with international organization to combat food insecurity in Africa

by BLOGS.IFAS
October 26, 2017

DES MOINES, Iowa – The University of Florida and a leading Africa-based international research institute are bringing their scientists together to speed the science of fighting hunger, poverty, and pollution. The UF Institute of Food and ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, NATURAL RESOURCES, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, Agreement, Food Security, IFAS, News

UF/IFAS scientists adapt household products to dupe and trap deadly disease-carrying insects in Africa

by Brad Buck
July 2, 2015

See caption below GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Crushed seashells and vinegar could be the key ingredients in an inexpensive and readily available way to lure and trap disease-carrying insects in developing nations, according to a new UF/IFAS study. By ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, Carbon Dioxide, Entomology And Nematology, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Insects, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Trap

University of Florida receives part of $7 million grant to empower women farmers in Africa

by BLOGS.IFAS
November 20, 2014

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – When Kathleen Colverson works in places like Mozambique, Tanzania and Ethiopia, she watches as women farmers rise before dawn to gather firewood and water to make breakfast for their families. They send the older children ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Africa, Extension, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida, USAID

UF study helps quantify biodiversity decrease around farmland

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 10, 2013

Click here for photo. Caption at bottom. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Animal biodiversity suffers near conservation areas that border big farms, and the effects can spread for miles, according to a new study by University of Florida researchers ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Africa, Biodiversity, CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, PLoS One, Robert McCleery, Sugarcane, Swaziland, University Of Florida, Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, Zachary M. Hurst

UF helping develop insecticide to target malaria-carrying mosquitoes

by Tom Nordlie
May 23, 2013

Cutline at bottom. Click here for high-res image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In malaria-ridden parts of Africa, mosquito netting protects people from being infected while they sleep; now, a University of Florida entomologist wants to improve the ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Acetylcholinesterase, Africa, Anopheles, Bloomquist, Malaria, Mosquito

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