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Conference Program, 24-27 January 2005
Thursday, January 27
Plenary session #4:
Private, Independent Seed Distribution
Gebisa
Ejeta, Chair
0830–0850 Four major constraints to
high maize yields in eastern Africa potentially solved with new
technologies
M. Onim, J.
Mito
0850–0910 Evolution of the seed
industry in Uganda
C. Kaijuka
0910–0930 The Seeds of Development
Program: innovative capacity building and networking for small to
medium-sized seed companies in eastern and southern Africa
E. Mabaya
0930–0950 Using high-quality
genotypes to improve rural food security and reduce poverty
M. wa
Githendu
0950–1010
From a
drama group to a community seed production association: experiences of
the Bakusekamajja Women’s Group in Uganda
G. Bakaira, A. Kaita, M. Isabirye, M.
Musoke, F. Kagweri
1010–1030 Developing the path to
prosperity: promoting Nerica in sub-Saharan Africa
I. Akintayo
1030–1050 Tea
break
Plenary session #5: Training and Institutions
Walter de Milliano,
Chair
1050–1105 Progress at the African
Centre for Crop Improvement, University of KwaZulu-Natal
M. Laing
1105–1120 Africa’s Center for Crop
Improvement partnership
V. Gracen
1120–1135 Role of farmers’
preferences in maize variety selection
M.S. Mwala, M.
Bänziger
1135–1150 Biosciences Initiative: an
emerging research and capacity-building network in Africa
J.O. Ochanda
1150–1205 Strategic testing and
promotion of new maize cultivars in western Kenya
E.J. Mukhwana,
J.O. Tungani
1205–1220 Intellectual property
rights and genetic improvement of African smallholder farmers’ crops
M. Bokanga
1220–1235 African Agricultural
Capital—a new investment company for agriculture
F.L. Cockcroft
1235–1250 Strengthening capacity for
crop improvement in eastern and southern Africa: the FORUM approach
E. Adipala
12:40–1400 Lunch
1400–1530
Thursday parallel sessions
(see below)
1530–1630 Closing
session
Parallel session, Genetic Improvement of Maize
Wayne Haag, Chair
1400–1415 Regional Disease Nursery:
a successful model for collaborative germplasm development
B. Vivek on
behalf of REGNUR collaborators
1415–1430 Maize ear rot incidence
and associated mycotoxin contamination in Uganda
G. Bigirwa, G.
Sseruwu, E. Adipala, E.N. Kaaya, J.S. Okanya
1430–1445 Evaluation of selected
maize varieties based on disease reaction, yield potential, flintiness
and husk cover at nine sites in Malawi during the 2003/04 season
P.T. Khonje,
N.D. Chikonda, C. Longwe
1445–1500 Breeding maize varieties
resistant to gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight in the low and
intermediate altitude areas in Tanzania
C.Kuwite
1500–1515 Assessment of national
plant breeding and biotechnology capacity in eastern and southern Africa
E.P. Guimarães,
E. Kueneman
Parallel session, Genetic Improvement of Sorghum and Millet
Mike Gale, Chair
1400–1415 Guinea sorghum hybrids:
progress towards developing commercially useful parents and parent
combinations
A. Toure, A.O.
Toure, A.G. Diallo, F. Rattunde
1415–1430 Is there a place for
sorghum hybrids in Kenya?
C.K. Karari,
W. de Milliano, P. Shanahan, M. Laing, E.C.K. Ngugi
1430–1445 Introgression of genes for
Striga resistance into African landraces of sorghum
I.
Kapran, C.
Grenier, G. Ejeta
1445–1500 Guinea-race sorghum
hybrids: a new approach for increasing yields of a staple crop of West
Africa
F. Rattunde,
A. Toure, K. vom Brocke, E. Weltzien, D. Sansan, I. Kapran, A. Fofana,
N. Cisse
1500–1515 Implications of the
sweetness of drought for ratooning cereals, in particular cereals with
‘stay-green’
W.A.J. de
Milliano
Parallel session, Nutrition
Robert Mwanga, Chair
1400–1415 Adoption of
beta-carotene-rich sweetpotato in drought-prone environments in central
Mozambique: rethinking breeding and dissemination paradigms to assure
sustained adoption
J. Low, M.I.
Andrade, F. Zano
1415–1430 Enhancing the nutritional
quality of locally adapted maize cultivars in eastern and southern
Africa by converting to quality protein maize
D. Kirubi, O.
Odongo, G. Ombakho, K. Kitenge, Z. Mduruma
1430–1445 Six years of quality
protein maize development in Mozambique
P.S. Chauque,
P. Fato, M. Denic, M. Langa, D. Mariore, C. Senete, W. Haag
1445–1500 Nutritional
biofortification of sorghum
L. Mehlo, B.
Okole
1500–1515 Breeding for aflatoxin
resistance and protein quality in maize
F.J. Betrán,
T. Isakeit, S. Bhatnagar, M. Edwards, B. Ochs, K. Mayfield, C. McKee, H.
Atta, Gary Odvody, M. Menz
Parallel session, Abiotic Stress
Sagadevan
Mundree, Chair
1400–1415 The impact of breeding for
abiotic stress tolerance
M. Bänziger,
P. S. Setimela, D. Hodson, B. Vivek
1415–1430 Genetic dissection of
drought tolerance in tropical maize: structural and functional genomics
approaches
J-M. Ribaut,
M.C. Sawkins, M. Vargas, M. Banziger, C. Bencivenni
1430–1445 Development of
drought-tolerant maize by genetic modification
J.A. Thomson,
S.G. Mundree
1445–1500 Molecular marker-assisted
selection of three intractable traits of maize and sorghum in Kenyan
genetic backgrounds: myth or reality?
K. Ngugi, Z.
Muthamia, R. Folkertsma
1500–1515 Evaluation of
marker-assisted selection for drought tolerance in maize test-cross
hybrids in sub-Saharan Africa
R. Ganunga, M.
Bänziger, J-M. Ribaut, J. Betrán
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