{"id":831,"date":"2015-08-31T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project4.pixelsenbytes.nl\/wordpress\/?p=831"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:14:49","slug":"garcia-joined-the-5th-technical-banana-meeting-of-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/2015\/08\/31\/garcia-joined-the-5th-technical-banana-meeting-of-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"GARC\u00cdA JOINED THE 5TH TECHNICAL BANANA MEETING OF COLOMBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-831 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/2015\/08\/31\/garcia-joined-the-5th-technical-banana-meeting-of-colombia\/group\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Group-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Fernando Garcia at 5th Technical Banana Meeting with group in Colombia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Group-2.jpg 820w, https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Group-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Group-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Group-2-510x382.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1586'>\n\t\t\t\t5TH TECHNICAL BANANA MEETING\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"bold\">Fernando Garc\u00eda, PhD student at Wageningen University and Research centre, visited the city of Santa Marta in Colombia as a representative of the banana research team of Wageningen UR.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augura.com.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AUGURA<\/a>, the national banana producer organization of Colombia, invited him from August 12-14 to join a conference with the banana sector and discuss the ongoing banana research, particularly with respect to Panama disease.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was framed into the \u201cV reuni\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica banenera de Colombia\u201d (the 5th Technical banana meeting of Colombia). In this meeting several national and international institutions\/companies gave an update about the situation of the banana industry in Colombia including the current situation with regard the menace of the Tropical Race 4 of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (TR4).<\/p>\n<p>The recent outbreaks of TR4 in Mozambique, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Australia and the frequent visits of banana producers and service providers to this area as well as other interactions between various banana stakeholders in banana producing regions that are affected by TR4 prompted AUGURA to include the issue of Panama disease in the technical and academic meeting to address the current situation in Colombia and to foster discussion and alertness.<\/p>\n<p>Overtime the banana research team, under de leadership of Gert Kema, established links with AUGURA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cib.org.co\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corporation for Biology Research<\/a>(CIB) and <a href=\"http:\/\/medellin.unal.edu.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National University of Colombia<\/a> campus Medellin (UNAL-Med) that all participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/panamadisease.org\/en\/research\">INREF<\/a> project and were, along with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidaridadnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solidaridad<\/a>, present in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:fernando.garciabastidas@wur.nl\">Fernando Garc\u00eda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/news-events\/\">Back to News page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Garc\u00eda, PhD student at Wageningen University and Research centre, visited the city of Santa Marta in Colombia as a representative of the banana research team of Wageningen UR.AUGURA, the national banana producer organization of Colombia, invited him from August 12-14 to join a conference with the banana sector and discuss the ongoing banana research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-meeting","category-visit","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}