The IICA Plant Protection Program for the Caribbean seeks to promote and support the efforts of the Caribbean countries to prevent and reduce losses in crops caused by pests, diseases and weeds. The program, which began ...

The meeting was designed to review the activities of the regional programme and to devise strategies to further strengthen the regional efforts in plant protection. This document represents the edited proceedings of the meeting.

The document explains that the meeting of Directors of Plant Protection in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was convened in Trinidad with the assistance and collaboration of the Representative and Staff ...

This document is playing a major role in the countries of the region, both in its capacity as an advisory body to the Director General of IICA in the area of plant protection, and as an important regional forum in which ...

The objectives of plant quarantine are: 1) to prevent the introduction of plant pests and/or diseases; 2) to eradicate, control or retard the spread of any such pest or disease that has already been introduced into a country.

Microbial plant symbionts are widely spread in nature changing the way their hosts interact with their environment. Neotyphodium fungal endophytes (Clavicipitaceae) are grass symbionts known by their production of alkaloids, ...