CBSD Breeding and Pre-Breeding for Africa
15 June 2022
Diagnostics and phenotyping tools
Stephan Winter / Samar Sheat
Leibniz Institute DSMZ
Resistant varieties pipeline development and deployment in Africa
Edward Kanju
IITA
Current status of CBSD prevalence in Africa
James Legg
IITA
Cyclic improvement for CBSD resistance and pre-breeding strategies in Uganda
Robert Kawuki
NaCRRI
Frontiers in CBSD root necrosis imaging and genomic prediction in Uganda
Leah Nandudu
Cornell University
QTL Associated with Field Resistance to CBSD
Morag Ferguson
IITA
Introgression of resistance to CBSD
Heneriko Kulembeka
TARI
Pre-emptive breeding for West Africa
Chukwuka Ano
Makerere University / NRCRI
CassavaBase
23 March 2022
Introduction, history, and overview of CassavaBase
Lukas Mueller
Boyce Thompson Institute
Managing the cassava trait ontology through CassavaBase
Naama Menda
Boyce Thompson Institute
Image management and analysis in CassavaBase
Bryan Ellerbrock
Boyce Thompson Institute
CassavaBase and intercross integration, markerset and accession search, ordering system
Titima Tantikanjana
Boyce Thompson Institute
Analysis and selection tools using phenotypic and genotypic Information
Isaak Tecle
Boyce Thompson Institute
NIRS Analysis pipeline
Nick Morales
Boyce Thompson Institute
Implementing CassavaBase for improving breeding management and quality control
Prasad Peteti
IITA
Cassava Genomics
12 January 2022
Metabolomic capture of cassava diversity and its application
Laura Perez-Fons
Royal Holloway/University of London
Working towards genomic selection based on molecular activity in cassava
Ed Buckler
USDA-ARS
RNAi-mediated resistance to cassava brown streak disease: development and delivery to farmers in East Africa
Nigel Taylor
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Developing genetic and epigenetic strategies to reduce susceptibility to bacterial blight
Kiona Elliott
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Genome-wide association studies for cassava brown streak disease
Leah Nandudu
Cornell University
Genomics-assisted recurrent selection and hybrid breeding in cassava
Xiaofei Zhang
CIAT
