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Nepal, November 2014

Experts from 12 Asian nations create the AsiaBlight network. Their first goal: compare Asian late blight populations to late blight populations in other parts of the word using molecular markers.

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WPC, Beijing, July 2015

An AsiaBlight meeting is held during the World Potato Congress in Beijing, with 50 people attending. In September 2015, network members meet again at the Symposium on Phytophthora in India, and agree to share data on pathogen populations.

 

AsiaBlight satellite workshop, Beijing 2015

Aarhus, May 2017

The mapping of LB populations in Asia begins. This project gets some help from a public-private collaboration. Preliminary results are described by Dr Louise Cooke et al., at the 2017 EuroBlight workshop.

Beijing, China, September 2018

The CIP-China Center for Asia Pacific (CIP-CCCAP) begins hosting AsiaBlight in order to enable the network to grow and become financially independent.

Wuxi, Chongqing, July 2018

At a LB workshop, Chinese scientists agree to join the AsiaBlight Network.

AsiaBlight gets a logo and launches its website.

The network continues to expand, following China, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Nepal, Vietnam…

An AsiaBlight International Meeting is scheduled for October in Beijing, co-organized by the International Potato Center (CIP) and China Agricultural University (CAU).