Uganda implements field trials of GM banana
Uganda has launched field trials of its own GM bananas in an effort to counter Xanthomonas in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

GM bananas protected against Xanthomonas wilt disease trialled in Uganda
Uganda has launched field trials of its own genetically modified (GM) bananas.

GM banana resistant to fungus shows promise
A banana strain resistant to a common fungal disease could help smallholder farmers in East Africa better control the crippling disease which has been spreading across the region over the last three decades.

Academia Sinica helps Ugandan banana farmers
Ugandan banana farmers’ battle against a plant disease that has been destroying 30 percent of their crop each year could soon be over, thanks to genetically modified technology from Taiwan through AATF.

Ugandan scientists grow GM banana as disease threatens country's staple food
On a campus outside Kampala, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe and his colleagues at the National Banana Research Programme have been on a quest to defeat the Xanthomonas wilt disease by building a better banana

Banana disease with strange symptoms hits the Lake Zone
Perhaps the only difference between the banana bacterial wilt disease and HIV is that the former attacks banana plants while the latter affects human beings.

Uganda: Sweet genes arm banana crops
Scientists in Uganda have developed GM bananas that show promising resistance to the deadly banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease.

Uganda 'needs biotech law' to save banana sector
An official in Uganda's agriculture ministry has expressed concern that policymakers are not keeping pace with scientific efforts to control a disease threatening the country's main cash crop.

Reduced cost of tissue culture banana can help control spread of Banana Bacterial Wilt in Great Lakes region
The cost of tissue culture banana plantlets can be reduced by up to 60% through effective and efficient banana tissue culture practices.