Coffee leaf rust fungus can reduce growth and sometimes kill coffee plants. The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment passed two bills to protect plants from foreign diseases by expanding quarantine operations.
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Okinawan sweet potato pie.
Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) joined a national network’s sweet potato protection group.
A new grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service allows UH Mānoa researchers to join the National Clean Plant Network’s project to protect Okinawan sweet potatoes from viruses.
When a virus infects a crop, it can negatively affect its yield, taste, appearance, and longevity. If it goes undetected, the virus can be inherited to the next generation of crops and spread.
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