Projects

A Peanut Information Network and Train-the-Trainer Program

The overall goal of this project is to develop an information network and training program to address the basic principles of peanut production, harvesting, postharvest handling, […]

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Improved West African peanut production for enhanced health and socioeconomic status through the delivery of research-based production systems in Ghana

The overall goal is more efficient peanut production. In the U.S. this equates to maintaining yields while reducing inputs. This has been attained in recent years […]

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Improving the health and livelihood of people of East Africa by addressing aflatoxin and gender-related constraints in peanut production, processing and marketing

This project links science directly to pressing development challenges. It increases food security and nutritional value for families producing one of Africa’s key crops, peanut. Building […]

  • Start Date: 2008/01/01
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: VT134
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Strategies for Controlling Groundnut Rosette Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Breeding for Disease Resistance, Seed Dissemination, Disease Management Education, and Generation of Transgenic Groundnut with Resistance to Groundnut Rosette Disease

The goals of the project are to develop and disseminate highly desirable groundnut cultivars with resistance to groundnut rosette disease (GRD) and drought tolerance to groundnut […]

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Overcoming Abiotic and Biotic Constraints to Yield, and Production of High-Quality Peanuts in West Africa and Texas

A successful outcome will result in being able to develop peanut varieties that are higher in quality and oil content, are tolerant to drought and foliar […]

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Improving livelihoods of farm households in peanut based farming systems in East Africa

The overall purpose of the University of Connecticut-Peanut CRSP effort is to improve understanding of the farm level economics of peanut production and marketing in Uganda […]

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Development of Methods for Establishing a Global Network for Aflatoxin Exposure

The long-term goal of this project is to enable and establish a global network for assessment of aflatoxin (AF) exposure in high-risk populations and to investigate […]

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Association of Aflatoxin Biomarker Levels with Health Status and HIV Disease

Although large proportions of people worldwide are affected by HIV infection and aflatoxin exposure, there has been no investigation/documentation of the role of aflatoxin in immune […]

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Enterosorbent intervention therapies for populations at risk for Aflatoxin related diseases

Aflatoxins (AFs) are harmful by-products of mold growth that can be fatal to humans and animals. The problem is longstanding, unavoidable and seemingly inextricable. A recent […]

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Breeding Peanut for Disease Resistance Valuable to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States

The project seeks to develop rust and leaf spot resistant germplasm and cultivars and deploy the germplasm and cultivars throughout the Caribbean and the Americas where […]

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