Maize Lethal Necrosis

Environmental health and biodiversity
In the media

Source: Kenya News Agency (17 Mar 2023)

How can plant health technologies be more widely adopted by smallholders in Kenya?

Environmental health and biodiversity
News

CIMMYT is working with Zimbabwe government organizations to facilitate sustainable food security initiatives.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

Achievements and next steps discussed at the review meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Features

The manual builds on the lessons of a decade of work on MLN management in sub-Saharan Africa by CIMMYT and its partners.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

A report commissioned by the CGIAR Advisory Services assesses the program’s achievements from 2017-2019.

Innovations
Features

New lines of CIMMYT-derived maize show increased resistance to maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease. Their rapid adoption, along with sustained monitoring and prevention efforts, are crucial to preventing another outbreak, argues a new report.

Innovations
Features

Need for continuous testing and application of new breeding methods to deliver resilient seed varieties at a faster rate is more important now than ever before.

Environmental health and biodiversity
In the media

Source: Kenya Broadcasting Company (5 Oct 2020)

CIMMYT and partners are supporting the commercial seed sector to produce seed free from the maize cause of maize lethal necrosis.

Innovations
Features

Stakeholders take stock of ongoing work to bring farmers superior hybrids using two novel technologies.

Environmental health and biodiversity
In the media

Source: The Standard (16 Aug 2020)

Kenya Seed Company worked with CIMMYT to develop a maize lethal necrosis-tolerant hybrid.

Environmental health and biodiversity
In the media

Source: Donne del Food (31 May 2020)

B.M. Prasanna, director of CIMMYT’s Global Maize Program and the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, discusses the viral disease maize lethal necrosis.

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

Maize lethal necrosis has taught us that intensive efforts to keep human and plant diseases at bay need to continue beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

Interested organizations are invited to send maize germplasm for screening.