Tar Spot Complex

Nutrition, health and food security
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The nine new maize lines are especially valuable for breeders seeking drought tolerance or tar spot complex disease resistance.

Innovations
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Multispectral and thermal images taken by cameras on unmanned aerial vehicles are helping researchers to monitor the resistance of maize to tar spot complex and other foliar diseases.

Innovations
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Traits sought include better resilience under high temperatures, drought conditions or the attacks of rapidly-evolving crop diseases.

Nutrition, health and food security
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A new study shows that nearly 12 million hectares of the maize-growing USA, approximately 33 percent of the entire maize-growing area of the country, might be vulnerable to a disease called Tar Spot Complex (TSC).

Climate adaptation and mitigation
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Indigenous farmers in Oaxaca are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over generations.

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

In southern Mexico and Central America a fungal maize disease known as tar spot complex is decimating yields, threatening local food security and livelihoods.