Lead Lecture
- Modern tools for genetic improvement are now available for cassava, the poor farmer's crops
Fauquet, C.
Invited speakers
- From cassava genomics tools to breeding
Tohme, J. - Potato genomics: Resourses and research to contribute to developing country agriculture
Ghislain, Marc - Development of genetic resources for breeding improved sweetpotato [pdf 147kb]
Schafleitner, R. - Intragenic transformation for genetic improvement of root and tuber crops
Conner, A.
Oral Presentation
- Deep sequencing of plant small RNAs: A generic method for diagnosis, discovery and sequencing of viruses [pdf 336kb]
Kreuze, Jan - Control of potato tuber dormancy and sprouting by genetic engineering of inorganic pyrophosphatase Gene
Si, Huaijun - Isolation of genes differentially expressed during the defense response of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) to whitefly (Aleurotrachelus socialis Bondar) attack
Bohorquez, Adriana - Combining biotechnology, molecular genetics and breeding to improve the content of carotenes in cassava roots
Chavarriaga, Paul
Posters
- Genetic transformation of potato cultivars using the RB gene to increase resistance to late blight disease [pdf 124kb]
Rivera Cristina - New SSR markers for sweetpotato from data mining of expressed sequence tags(ESTs)
Solis, Julio - Potato genomics: Resourses and research to contribute to developing country agriculture [pdf 90kb]
Ghislain, Marc - Gene expression profiling of developing cassava storage and its starch quality improvement by genetic engineering
Zhang, Peng - In Vitro screening of Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) genotypes for drought resistance using polyethylene glycol [pdf 327kb]
Agili, Sammy - Molecular assisted assessment of late blight resistance in potato [pdf 187kb]
Lindqvist-Kreuze, Hannele - Structural and functional characterization of an Ipomoea batatas Phytoenen Synthase gene
Chavarriaga, Paul - Screening for regeneration and transformation efficiencies of African sweetpotato cultivars [pdf 103kb]
Manrique, S. - Insilico prediction and characterization of microRNAs from Sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]
Solis, Julio - Identification of regions of cassava genome associated with increased carotenoids content in the roots
Ceballos, Hernan - Protocol for amplification by transferability of micro satellite markers in dioscorea bulbifera
Siqueira, Marcos - Genetic variability in commercial varieties of water yam (Dioscorea alata) with microsatellites markers [pdf 278kb]
Siqueira, Marcos