Keynote Lectures

• Agriculture in developing nations: Challenges and opportunities and … where does biotech fit in?
  (2.68 MB), Debby Delmer
• Cassava biotechnology delivering added values to end users (2.35 MB)
  Joe Tohme

Special Session: Celebrating Ginés and Mera

• Gender and diversity (67 KB)
  Jacqueline Ashby
• Implementation of biotechnology tools to improve poor farmers’ competitiveness (1.43 MB)
  José Restrepo
• Deployment of transgenic cassava products: Biosafety aspects (586 KB)
  Marília Nutti
• Moving transgenic cassava from the lab to the field (2.17 MB), Lawrence Kent

Panel: How to Add Value to Cassava?

• Cassava biotechnology for developing countries: Prospects and challenges (3.05 MB)
  Wilhelm Gruissem
• Cassava products and biotech: Brazilian trends and implications (617 KB)
  Guy Henry
• Adding value to cassava crop by exploiting storage root diversity with traditional clones from Amazon (2.17 MB)
  Luiz Carvalho
• Transgenic cassava: The products and future directions (1.16 MB), Richard Sayre

Innovative Approaches in R&D for Cassava

• Latin America and Caribbean consortium to support cassava R&D (13.6 MB)
  Bernardo Ospina
• Innovative approaches for cassava R&D: Post-harvest in Africa (1.36 MB)
  Andrew Westby
• Research & development efforts on cassava in India: An overview (2.03 MB)
  S. Edison

Towards Cassava Biotechnology Next Phase

• Cassava Biotechnology Network: An overview (3.26 MB)
  Alfredo Alves
• Global Cassava Development Strategy (GCDS)
  (1.29 MB), Nebambi Lutaladio
• Global Cassava Partnership for Genetic Improvement (GCP-GI) (1.49 MB)
  Claude Fauquet

Cassava Nutrition Value

• Increasing micronutrient quality in cassava (222 KB)
  Delia Amaya
• Solution for hidden hunger (242 KB)
  Clara Brandão
• Perspectives for enhancing protein content in cassava (587 KB), Larry Beach

Abiotic Stresses

• Physiological responses of cassava to water deficit (1.22 MB), Alfredo Alves
• Using Arabidopsis to identify genes in the drought-response pathways (1.63 MB)
  Elizabeth Bray
• Applying genomics tools to understand drought tolerance mechanisms (1.83 MB)
  Manabu Ishitani
• Identifying the full set of genes involved in cassava post-harvest physiological deterioration (226 KB)
  John Beeching

Transformation and Transgenics Products

• Seven habits of effective transgene product development (2.16 MB)
  Paul Olson
• Progress on genetic transformation of cassava
  (1.11 MB), Paul Chavarriaga

Small Farmers and Research Planning

• Technology innovation with small cassava farmers
  (1.29 MB), Santiago Perry
• Working with farmers in Asia: Spreading new cassava varieties, improved practices… and new hope (1.57 MB)
  Reinhardt Howeler

Biotic Stresses

• Virus epidemics and whitefly outbreaks on cassava in Africa: Lessons learned (1.76 MB)
  James Legg
• Characterization of expressed genes for cassava bacterial blight resistance (893 KB)
  Valerie Verdier
• Integrated management of cassava arthropods pests (3.03 MB), Anthony Bellotti
• Cassava geminiviruses and satellites: The known and the unknown (2.36 MB)
  Claude Fauquet

Tools for Cassava Breeding

• Cassava breeding at CIAT and the use of doubled haploids (3.89 MB)
  Hernán Ceballos
• Improving crops through induced mutations (1.96 MB)
  Chikelu Mba
• Conventional breeding: Lessons learned (2.86 MB)
  Alfred Dixon
• MAS in cassava breeding (1.43 MB)
  Martin Fregene

Biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights

• Biodiversity of cassava: Challenges and innovations for its conservation (860 KB)
  Daniel Debouck
• Development of cassava varieties through the exploitation of variability in local germplasm (654 KB)
  Safo Kantaka
• Intellectual property rights in global context (78 KB)
  Carol Nottenburg
• Access to plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights (477 KB)
  Simone Ferreira