The dynamics of agricultural pests: leveraging data from genome to landscapes 🌱🪲🐛🪰 Hear from @drrenataretkute.bsky.social and Dr Henry North this Friday. #FoodSecurity #CropProtection

How to predict and prevent #cassava viral epidemics? 🌱 💻 Ruairi Donnelly & Israël Tankam Chedjou developed tools to model disease spread and optimise crop mixtures for this vital #FoodSecurity crop. www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/managin... @camplantsci.bsky.social #UMR-IGEPP #CropProtection

Cost-effective early detection of banana bunchy top disease: insights from spatio-temporal modelling in Benin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698707v1

Now published: Evaluating a landscape-scale model to forecast wheat stem rust with @metoffice.gov.uk @cimmyt.bsky.social and #EIAR 🇪🇹 Funded by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social #FCDO doi.org/10.1088/1748...

Excited to share Renata's new study in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social on #banana bunchy top virus in West Africa! 🍌🛰️📊 Led by @drrenataretkute.bsky.social with collaborators across Benin 🇧🇯 IITA and University of Queensland #PlantHealth #FoodSecurity #Epidemiology

Could the way we arrange crops boost future food security? New work from @camplantepidem.bsky.social looks at how crop layout in landscapes can dramatically slow plant disease spread without relying on chemicals or costly interventions. tinyurl.com/353tb8jw @suprunenkoyf.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

Our wheat rust forecast tool is part of #DEWAS 🌾 Surveillance + diagnostics + forecasting + training = transnational rust response Protecting wheat across 8+ countries in Africa & South Asia Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=OGdE... @cimmyt.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSci #FoodSecurity

How can farmers use models to prevent wheat disease? Watch the video from @camplantepidem.bsky.social to see how subsistence farmers across Africa & South Asia can use forecasting models to protect their crops. 📽️ tinyurl.com/3yecskf4 Funded by @cambridgefestival.bsky.social 🙏 🧪#PlantSci

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Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust. @camplantepidem.bsky.social

New climate resilience & sustainability project co-led by @drrenataretkute.bsky.social with @bioversityciat.bsky.social aims to protect banana production in Africa from crop disease. Read more: tinyurl.com/2dutb4h2 #PlantSci 🧪 @cam.ac.uk @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @camplantepidem.bsky.social

We celebrate a team member's success! Renata @drrenataretkute.bsky.social has received a BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Award to work with the Australian Plague Locust Commission on improved forecasting & management in Australia. @camplantsci.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social