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Spotlight on potato late blight:
Whereas the initial stages of an infection are determined by the quality of the immune response, successful tissue invasion depends on access to the host’s nutritional resources.
Strip-till, half-way between ploughing and no-till
Tilling only where the crop will be sown looks like an attractive compromise for Wallonia’s farmers.
The transfer of micro propagation technology– a success story Between CRA-W and Nunhems (Bayer)
December 2013 - CRA-W and its Life Sciences department successfully developed and transferred a complete micro propagation technology to Nunhems, the vegetable seeds business of Bayer...
Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits
Strawberry and small fruit growing is increasingly becoming a diversification crop for Walloon farmers
Aiming for accuracy
GPS has been a feature of our farms for several years now and is used as an aid to machine movements.
Integrated pest management: when growers become strategists
Slugs, weeds, fungi, insects, bacteria, rodents,… : cultivated plants have to contend with lots of pests. The aim of integrated pest management is not to eradicate them but to keep...
Solving the mysteries of the orange wheat blossom midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana)
Between mid-April and mid-June the adult orange wheat blossom midges – tiny little midges – emerge in the fields in one or more waves. Having been fertilized, the females fly off in...
Interrogating the air and the rain in order to understand wheat diseases
Like pollen, wheat pathogenic fungus spores are microscopic propagules that can take to the air in order to disperse. Little is known about their aerial travel and so, until now, predictive...
Looking ahead to reduce herbicide use
Bindweed, silky apera, wild oats ... don’t they have pretty names, those weeds that gardeners and farmers struggle so hard to control! They compete mercilessly with cultivated plants....
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