September 2000, Volume 21 No. 3

• General News
• IPM Systems
• Training News
• Internet Round-Up
• Announcements
• Conference Reports
• Proceedings

 Internet Round-up

By: Tony Little, Technical Support Group to the Global IPM Facility, CABI Bioscience.

This quarter Internet Roundup virtually goes bananas. I was delighted to discover that The Consortium for International Crop Protection (CICP) <http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/cicp/about.html> had already made a start for me, by compiling a list of internet IPM resources on banana, covering a wide range of banana IPM issues, including biological control at:

http://www.ippc.orst.edu/cicp/fruit/banana.html

The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP) at:

http://www.cgiar.org/ipgri/inibap/

is also good source of information on pest management, and is also very well linked.

The Department of Primary Industries, Queensland<http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/Welcome.html > produces DPI notes giving pest management advice, and practical information on managing various pest and disease problem in a range of crops, including bananas can be found at:

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/dpinotes/hortic/tropfruit/h00059.html  

Banana link at:

http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1702/

is definitely worth a visit, although it deals more with the political issues of bananas. It has a section on organic bananas, and a list of documents available on line. The Australian Banana Growers Council (ABCG) <http://www.abgc.org.au/default.htm> is a good site too. Details of current activities, research programmes and banana links are at:

http://www.abgc.org.au/

There is a number of project reports and summaries available online, for instance, as part of the CGIAR's Systemwide Programme for IPM <http://www.cgiar.org/spipm/index.htm>, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is managing a project, `Improving plantain- and banana-based systems', a summary of which is posted at:

http://www.cgiar.org/spipm/dbase/projects/iitaipd.html

DfID's Crop Protection Programme <http://vwww.netcom.net.uk/~n/nri/cpp1.htm> also has a summary of a project on development of nematode resistance in bananas and plantain, with further details at:

http://vwww.netcom.net.uk/~n/nri/pcpp/r6391.htm

Details of CABI Bioscience's work on adapting novel techniques for detection and characterization of fungi causing fusarium wilt and sigatoka leaf spots of banana and plantain are at:

http://www.cabi.org/bioscience/annualreport_projects_egham.htm#pdn

There are a range of on-line papers and news items dotted around. For example, Florida Entomologist <http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/> has `Timing and distribution of attack by the banana weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in East African highland banana (Musa spp.) at:

http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe82p631.htm

There is a paper on the banana moth from Hort Digest <http://www.hortdigest.com/archives/2-2000/default.html> at:

http://www.hortdigest.com/archives/2-2000/bananamoth.htm

And another from Agropolis at:

http://www.agropolis.fr/actualiteevenements/lettre/spe1099gb/integraprotec.html