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2007 Scientific Poster Competition

A key event of the Knowledge Sharing Week, held at CIAT headquarters from May 18 to 25, was the 2007 Scientific Poster Competition. The content and design quality of the 56 participating posters received very favorable comments from viewers. Poster were arranged according to the CIAT Product Lines: Beans, Cassava, Forages, Rice, TSBF, and Markets, Institutions and Livelihoods.

Awards were given in four categories:

Best Science for Social Benefit

Quesungual Slash Mulch Agroforestry System (QSMAS): Improving crop water productivity, food security and resource quality in the sub-humid tropics (528 kb)
A. Castro, M. Rivera, O. Ferreira, J. Pavón, D. Valladares, E. García, E. Amézquita, M. Ayarza, E. Barrios, M. Rondón, L.A. Welchez, I. Rao

Best Science for Environmental Benefit

Determination of gene flow events in natural "wild-weedy-cultivated" complexes in genepools of Phaseolus lunatus L. (192 kb)
H. Suárez-Barón, C. Martínez-Garay, R.I. González-Torres, M.C. Duque, D.G. Debouck, J. Tohme

Best Science for Economic Benefit

A triple tie, with three winning efforts:

Cassava propagation by small scale farmers using a low cost in vitro system (618 kb)
R.H. Escobar, L. Muñoz, C.M. Hernández, G. Ospina, E. Caicedo, J. Restrepo, J. Tohme

Identification of aluminum resistant common bean genotypes using a hydroponic screening method (207 kb)
G. Manrique-Carpintero, I. Rao, S. Beebe

Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) assessment of genetic diversity of local cassava varieties (417 kb)
Cassava Genetics Project

Best Science for Overall Benefit

Cultivos biofortificados: Una estrategia de los sectores agricultura y salud para mejorar la nutrición de poblaciones latinoamericanas y caribeñas
[Biofortified crops: An agriculture and health strategy to improve nutrition of Latin-American and Caribbean people] (439 kb)
S. Beebe, H. Córdova, W. Gruneberg, G. Hyman, A. Krivanek, C. Martínez, M. Nutti, B. Ospina, H. Pachón, J. Tohme, R. Urbina

See the list of posters and download them in PDF.