Crops

Hannington Obiero, KARI: Restoration of cassava production in western Kenya updates
Dr. Jim Whyte and Edward Kanju, IITA: Decentralized cassava improvement in East Africa
Anabela Zacarias, INIA: Breeding for cassava brown streak resistance
Henry Ojulong , CIAT : Cassava resistance mapping

Teresia Munga , KARI : Cassava improvement for brown streak resistance

Use of biotechnology, to develop cassava varieties that are resistant to the cassava Brown Streak Disease

Grantee: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Country: Ibadan, Nigeria

Grant No: 2004 FS 023

Amount: $490,000

To enhance the ability of breeders to improve cassava and tropical fruits by over-expression of known genes that allow breeders to control the timing and extent of flowering in collaboration with the Max Planck institute

Grantee: International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Principal Investigator: Joseph Tohme

Country: Colombia

Grant No: 2004 FS 034

Amount: $280,140

To manage cassava diseases in Central Kenya through farmer participatory resistance breeding and multiplication of clean planting material

Grantee: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute

Principal Investigator: Miriam Kinyua

Country: Kenya

Grant No: 2004 FS 048

Amount: $94,575

Cassava Research in Photo Gallery (under construction)