Cassava in Vietnam: A glimpse of Lao Cassava Workshop

HÃY VƯƠN TỚI NHỮNG VÌ SAO

"Hãy vươn tới những vì sao. Cho dù không chạm được vào nó, nhưng nếu cố gắng hết sức, ít ra, chúng ta cũng chạm được những hạt bụi của ngôi sao" (Reach for the stars. Although you will never touch them, if you reach hard enough, you will find that you get a little star dust on you in the process).

Norman Borlaug di sản niềm tin và nổ lực

Remember Norman Borlaug

FOOD CROPS. "Đời người tối thiểu phải ăn, kế đến là học tập, công việc, nhà ở, quần áo và chăm sóc sức khỏe. Quanh ta còn nhiều mảnh đời bất hạnh. Hiểm họa nghèo đói vẫn bùng phát bất cứ lúc nào. Hãy luôn nhớ điều đó." Lời của Thầy Norman Bourlaug và di sản của Người về cuộc cách mạng xanh mãi mãi là niềm tin và nổ lực của chúng ta !

GLOBAL CASSAVA PARTNERSHIPS GCP1

“Cassava : Meeting the Chalenges of
the New Millennium” July 21-25, 2008
IPBO – Ghent University – Belgium

Cassava is one of the major subsistence crops in the world. It feeds more than a billion people every day, through it is today exploited at about 15% of it current potential. Many factores account for this situation , most of them due to the fact that it is a vegetatively propagated crop, therefore associated with a lot of biotic constraints. However, it natural drought resistance and it semi-perennial botanical nature offer incomparable advantages for poor farmers. Expressing the full potential of cassava would turn this subsistence crop into an industrial one. This evolution already took place in several Asian coutries and South America, and in some rare places in Africa. It the largest number of people in developing countries use cassava as a crop to solve the food problem in the world and to change the economy of developing countries.

During the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP-1), we will review the status of knowledge about cassava, to show its potential and demonstrate the possibilities to unlock that potential !

The first day of the meeting, dubbed “Donor Day” is entirely dedicated to illustrate all the recent initiatives taken in cassava research and development, and to promote a discussion about the gaps in knowledge and funding.

During the week, 115 presentations by all the world most knowledgeable cassava experts, gathered in 13 concurrent sessions, intend to review all the recent advances made in cassava science and cassava improvement. Three days of poster sessions, with open 200 posters, will provide an opportunity to exchange, talk and argue about issues important for casava.

More importantly, the goal of this International Cassava Forum is to convince donors of the necessity to invest more , to strengthen the synergy in the cassava community, as well as to encourage more scientists to work with this very important crop, the third source of calories in the developing world, which feeds more than a billion people every day!

Dr. Claude M. Fauquest
Organizer of the First Scientific meeting
of the Global Cassava Partnership

Cassava: A Gift to the World and a Challenge for Scientists

The Global Cassava Partnership, a network of scientists and developpers of cassava, aims to improve cassava by promoting the investment of science and technology worldwide. In the past decade the cassava research community has made impressive progress in tackling important production constraints in the areas of assembling large conlections of landraces and willspecies, breeding for pest and disease resistance and added value traits, development of low-cost rapid propagation systems, implementation of genomics tools for marker-assisted selectionand virus diagnostics, development of transgeniccassava for nutritions traits and for resistance to viruses, and the establishment of regional public and private sector partnership. Despit these improvements, yields in large parts of the cassava production areas are well below the potential of the germplasm developed. Limitations exist and are preventing the rapid formation of the next generationof cassava scientists on a large scale. Gaps still persist in the areas of technology transfer and in delivering added values for casava end users. The GCP has identified several opportunities and strategies to improve cassava production systems and they will be presented and discussed during the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP 1).

Joe Tohme and Claude Fauquet
Co-Chairs of the Global Cassava Partnership

PRESENTATION OF THE GCP1

CASSAVA: MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM. July 21-25, 2008 PBBO – Gent University – Belgium (More information see http://www.danforthcenter.org/GCP21 and check email)

Donor Day
DD01 Marc Van Montagu marc.vanmontagu@ugent.be
Ghent, City of Science and Biotechnology

DD02 Claude Fauquet iltab@danforthcenter.org
Cassava; a Gift to the World and a Challenge for Poor Farmers

DD03 Joe Tohme j.tohme@cgiar.org
Cassava; a Gift to the World and a Challenge for Scientists

DD04 Mpoko Bokanga m.bokanga@aatf-africa.org
Cassava in Africa; Present and Prospective

Major Recently Initiated Cassava Projects
DD05 Rajiv J. Shah rajs@gatesfoundation.org
The Agricultural Development Program of the Gates Fdn

DD06 Joe DeVries jdevries@rockfound.org
Agro-Ecology-Based Farmer-Participatory Breeding Holds New Promise for Improving Cassava Productivity in Africa

DD07 Pablo Rabinowicz prabinowicz@som.umaryland.edu
Genomics in the Cassava Family: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

DD08 Joe Tohme j.tohme@cgiar.org
Harvest Plus

DD09 Richard Sayre sayre.2@osu.edu
BioCassava Plus

DD10 Titus Alicai talicai@danforthcenter.org
Virca: Developing Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa

DD11 Fina Opio f.opio@asareca.org
ASARECA Initiative to Improve Cassava Productivity and Utilization in East and Central Africa (ECA)

DD12 Mohamed Beavogui m.beavogui@ifad.org
The IFAD Cassava Delivery Model

Future Initiatives
DD13 Andrew Westby A.Westby@greenwich.ac.uk
Developing Value Chains for Cassava in Africa

DD14 Tom Remington tremington@crsearo.org
The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative: A Partnership Response to a Continental Threat

DD15 Tetsuya Sakurai stetsuya@psc.riken.jp
Development and Application of Cassava Microarrays

DD16 James Anderson James.Anderson@ars.usda.gov
The Post-Genomic Era of Cassava

DD17 Alfred Dixon A.Dixon@cgiar.org
Megabreeding of Cassava for African Rural Development: Where Do We Stand?

DD18 Elcio Guimaraes Elcio.Guimaraes@fao.org
A Capacity Building Partnership Initiative to Strengthen Plant Breeding Ability Worldwide

DD19 Alfredo Alves aalves@cnpmf.embrapa.br
Cassava Biodiversity: Major Challenges

Donor Round Table
DD20 G. Hawtin G.Hawtin@cgiar.org
D. Watson D.Watson@cgiar.org
Participants to the Donor Round Table
A. Sangare abou.sangare@cnra.ci CORAF
K. Nwosu keninwosu_nrcri@yahoo.com NRCRI
E. Terry e.terry@cgiar.org
T. Phillips truman.p@earthlink.net
G.W. Otim-Nape wonape@yahoo.com
S. Edison edisonctcri@yahoo.co.in CTCRI
A. Aguilar alfredo.aguilar-romanillos@ec.europa.eu EU
M. Ferroni marco.ferroni@syngenta.com Syngenta Fdn
L. Beach lbeach@usaid.gov USAID
D. Doering don.doering@gatesfoundation.org BMGF
J. DeVries jdevries@rockfound.org AGRA
G. Toenniessen GToenniessen@rockfound.org RF
K. Panneels Panneels@diplobel.fed.be BelgAid

Golden Cassava Prize
Presented by Joe Tohme j.tohme@cgiar.org and Claude Fauquet iltab@danforthcenter.org
To Dr. Gary Toenniessen GToenniessen@rockfound.org The Rockefeller Foundation

Plenary Session 1
PS01 John Lynam jlynam@africaonline.co.ke
The Development Potential of Cassava in Africa

PS02 Peter Kearns peter.kearns@oecd.org
OECD’s Work on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds: Cassava as a Case Study

PS03 Francis Nang’ayo f.nangayo@aatf-africa.org
Status of Regulations for GM Crops in African Countries: Which Way forward?

S1: Nutritional Enhancement
S1-1 Mark Manary Manary@kids.wustl.edu
Impact of Cassava Nutrition on Children in Africa

S1-2 Marilia Nutti marilia@ctaa.embrapa.br
Institutionalizing the Biofortification Strategy in a Sustainable Way: The Case of Brazil

S1-3 Bussie Maziya-Dixon b.dixon@cgiar.org
Stability of Total Carotenoids, Iron and Zinc Concentrations in Cassava: Implications for Breeding

S1-4 Mohammed Abhary mabhary@danforthcenter.org
Expression of a Single Transgene in Storage Roots of Cassava Increases Protein to 11% Dry Weight and Deceases Cyanogens by 50%

S1-5 Ed Cahoon ecahoon@danforthcenter.org
Golden Cassava is Now a Reality
S1-6 Uzo Ihemere ihemere.1@osu.edu
Elevating Iron Levels in Transgenic Cassava Roots

S1-7 Eliana Gaitan-Solis egaitansolis@danforthcenter.org
Zinc Biofortification of Cassava Tuberous Roots

S1-8 Jacobo Arango jacoaran@gmail.com
Towards "Golden" Cassava: Gene Expression Analysis and Identification of Storage Root Promoters

S1-9 Noriko Iseki noriko.iseki@fao.org
Codex Alimentarus Related to Biotechnology

S2: Mapping Assisted Selection
S2-1 Martin Fregene m.fregene@cgiar.org
Cassava Molecular Markers in Cassava Breeding

S2-2 Wenquan Wang wquanw@hainan.net
Genomics Based Molecular Breeding in Cassava

S2-3 Melaku Gedil m.gedill@cgiar.org
The Use of Comparative Genomics to Tap New Sources of Disease Resistance Genes in Cassava and its Wild Relatives

S2-4 Chiedozie Egesi cegesi@yahoo.com
Controlling Delayed Post Harvest Physiological Deterioration (PPD) in Cassava

S2-5 Isabel Moreno Isabelm@ethz.ch
Progress in Positional Cloning of CMD2: the Gene That Confers High Level of Resistance to the Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD).

S3: Agronomy (Cassava field production)
S3-1 Reinhardt Howeler R.Howeler@cgiar.org
Does Cassava Degrade Soils?

S3-2 Hoang Kim hoangkim_vietnam@yahoo.com
Current Situation of Cassava in Vietnam and the selection of cassava doubled
haploid (DH) lines derived from CIAT

S3-3 NeBambi Lutaladio NeBambi.Lutaladio@fao.org
Strengthening Cassava-based Systems for Central Africa and the Great Lakes Region

S3-4 Anneke Fermont A.Fermont@cgiar.org
The Importance of Agronomy and Fertilizer Use for Cassava Productivity: Some Lessons from East Africa

S3-5 Gangadharan Byju byju_g@yahoo.com
Soil Health, Cassava Yield and Nutrient Uptake As Influenced by Different Biofertilizers and Biocontrol Agents in Vertisols in India

S3-6 Bernard Vanlauwe b.vanlauwe@cgiar.org
The Potential of Integrated Soil Fertility Management to Improve the Productivity of Cassava-based Systems

S4: Genomics and Gene Discovery
S4-1 German Plata gaplata@cgiar.org
Mining a Cassava Full-length cDNA Library for Gene Discovery and its Application for Cassava Improvement

S4-2 Maria Santana maria.santana@gmail.com
Transcriptome Responses in Bacteria Infected Cassava

S4-3 Ivan Ingelbrecht I.Ingelbrecht@cgiar.org
Utilization of ESTs from Cassava: Progress on Development of EST-SSR Markers and an Oligo DNA Microarray

S4-4 Punchapat Sojikul jarunya209@hotmail.com
Cassava Molecular Biotechnology Research Consortium in Thailand: Genome-wide Analysis of Cassava Transcriptome

S4-5 Weixiong Zhang zhang@cse.wustl.edu
MicroRNAs in Cassava: Their Conservation and Possible Functions in Abiotic Stress Response

S4-6 Claude Fauquet iltab@danforthcenter.org
Cassava Root Proteome Landscape Available for Gene Discovery

S5: Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
S5-1 Luiz Carvalho carvalho@cenargen.embrapa.br
Agrobiodiversity of Cassava in the Amazon: A source of New Traits and Utilization of Cassava Storage Root

S5-2 Doyle McKey doyle.mckey@cefe.cnrs.fr
Ecological Studies of Cassava and its Wild Relatives: Implications for the Integrated Management of Genetic Resources

S5-3 Jan Salick jan.salick@mobot.org
Molecular Evidence of Manihot Phylogeography and Domestication

S5: Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
S5-4 Alfredo Alves aalves@cnpmf.embrapa.br
Current Status of the Embrapa Wild Manihot Collection

S5-5 Paula Hurtado p.x.hurtado@cgiar.org
Assessment of the Diversity in Global Cassava Genetic Resources Based on Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers

S5-6 Clair Hershey c.hershey@cgiar.org
A Global Conservation Strategy for Cassava and Wild Manihot Species

S6: Biofuels and Starch Modification
S6-1 Richard Visser richard.visser@wur.nl
Modifying Starch Content and Composition Using Starch Binding Domains

S6-2 Nick de Vetten Nick.de.Vetten@Avebe.com
Properties and Functions of Amylose-free Cassava Starch

S6-3 Luiz Carvalho carvalho@cenargen.embrapa.br
Apparent Amylose Proportion Estimation in Cassava Starch

S6-4 Teresa Sanchez h.ceballos@cgiar.org
Characterization of Amylose-free and High-amylose Starch Mutations in Cassava

S6-5 Morakot Tanticharoen morakt@biotec.or.th
Overview of Cassava Molecular Biology Research in Thailand

S6-6 Surapong Charoenrath sura522003@yahoo.com
Cassava and Biofuel: The Thailand Case

S6-7 Boma Anga bomaanga@yahoo.com
Nepad Pan African Cassava Initiative (NPACI) Strategies

S6-8 James Awoniyi jawoniyi2000@yahoo.com
The Role of The Private Sector in the Transformation of Cassava in Africa: The Crownek Green Energy Model

S6-9 Dominique Dufour d.dufour@cgiar.org
Evaluation of Altitude Cassava for the Starch Production in Colombia

S7: Field Breeding
S7-1 Alfred Dixon A.Dixon@cgiar.org
Unleashing the Power of Cassava: New Cassava Varieties for Africa

S7-2 Yona Beguma bgmyn@yahoo.co.uk
Breeding for Better Cassava in Uganda

S7-3 Geoffery Mkamilo geoffreymkamilo@yahoo.co.uk
Towards Cassava Green Revolution in Tanzania

S7-4 Anabela Zacarias a.zacarias@intra.co.mz
Combined Genetic Distance Analysis as Revealed by Morphological and AFLP Markers of Cassava Breeding Parents in Mozambique

S7-5 Elizabeth Parkes ey.parkes@yahoo.co.uk
Advancing Cassava Improvement Using Molecular Tools and Participatory Breeding in Ghana

S7-6 Subramanian Edison edisonctcri@yahoo.co.in
Triploidy Breeding Paves the Way to Produce Starchier Cassava in India

S7-7 Kaimian Li likaimian@sohu.com
Cassava Production Development in China

S7-8 Chareinsak Rajanaronidpiched agrcsr@yahoo.com
Cassava Breeding in Thailand

S7-9 Miguel Dita miguel@cnpmf.embrapa.br
Breeding Cassava for Ehancement of Carotenoid, Iron and Zinc Contents

S7-10 Hernan Ceballos h.ceballos@cgiar.or
Recent Progress in Cassava Breeding Technologies

S8: Physiology; PPD
S8-1 Tawanda Zidenga zidenga.1@osu.edu
Reducing Cyanide–Dependent ROS Production in Transgenic Cassava Roots: Impact on Post-Harvest Physiological Deterioration

S8-2 Michael Page M.T.Page@bath.ac.uk
Extending the Shelf Life of Cassava: Modulation of the Antioxidant Status of Storage Roots

S8-3 Birger Moller blm@life.ku.dk
Endogenous Turn-Over of Cyanogenic Glucosides in Cassava Without Release of Hydrogen Cyanide

S8-4 Martin Fregene m.fregene@cgiar.org
Controlling Delayed Post Harvest Physiological Deterioration (PPD) in Cassava

S8-5 Per-Olof Lundquist Per-Olof.Lundquist@vbsg.slu.se
Nutrients Regulate Formation of Tuberous Storage Roots in Cassava

S9: Genetic Transformation
S9-1 Kirsten Jorgensen kij@life.ku.dk
Genetic Transformation of Cassava - Independent of Genotype

S9-2 Paul Chavarriaga p.chavarriaga@cgiar.org
New Constructs Carrying Multiple Genes to Increase b-Carotene in Cassava Roots

S9-3 Peng Zhang zhangpeng@sibs.ac.cn
Improvement of Transformation Efficiency from Somatic Cotyledons of Major Cassava Cultivars in China

S9-4 Nigel Taylor ntaylor@danforthcenter.org
High Throughput Production and Analysis of Transgenic Cassava

S9-5 Hervé Vanderschuren hvanderschuren@ethz.ch
Easy and Reproducible Cassava Transformation: The “Quest for the Holy Grail” of the Cassava Biotechnology Community

S10: Biotic and Abiotic Stress
S10-1 James Legg j.legg@cgiar.org
Fifteen Years of Cassava Virus Epidemics in East and Central Africa

S10-2 Stephan Winter Stephan.Winter@jki.bund.de
The Cassava Brown Streak Viruses Infecting Cassava in East Africa

S10-3 Joseph Ndunguru jndunguru2003@yahoo.co.uk
Two Novel Satellite ssDNAs Associated with Bipartite Cassava Mosaic Begomoviruses Enhancing Symptoms and Capable of Breaking High Virus Resistance in a Cassava Landrace

S10-4 Camilo Lopez celopezc@unal.edu.co
Functional Genomics of the Cassava - Xam Pathosystem

S10-5 Tony Bellotti a.bellotti@cgiar.org
Cassava: Pest Interactions at the Crossroads

S10-6 Alfredo Alves aalves@cnpmf.embrapa.br
Identifying the Genetic and Physiological Traits Related to Drought Tolerance Mechanisms in Cassava

S10-7 Luis Duque lod3@cornell.edu
Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in Contrasting Cassava Varieties Genotypes under Field Controlled Water Stressed Environments

S10-8 Christopher Omongo r.hanna@cgiar.org
Cassava Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.): An Emerging Threat to Sustainable
Cassava Production in Africa

S10-9 Claude Fauquet iltab@danforthcenter.org
Controlling Cassava Viruses Through Genetic Engineering

S11: Tissue Culture and Micropropagation
S11-1 Changhu Wang wangchangh@scbg.ac.cn
Development of Doubled Haploids Through Isolated Microspore Culture,
can Greatly Benefit Cassava Breeding and Other Applications

S11-2 Francisco Campos bioplant@ufc.br
Proteome Analysis of Secondary Somatic Embryogenesis in Cassava

S11-3 Emmanuel Nwachukwu nwachukwuec@yahoo.com
Response of Farmer-Preferred Cassava Collections to In vitro Culture

S11-4 Nigel Taylor ntaylor@danforthcenter.org
Improved Tissue Culture and Plant Regeneration Systems for the Production of Transgenic Cassava

S11-5 Madhavi Sheela sheelactcri@gmail.com
Tissue Culture: Micropropagation and Transformation of Indian Cassava Varieties

S12: Cassava Delivery Chain
S12-1 Steve Walsh swalsh@earo.crs.org
Quality Management Protocols and On Farm Voucher as Processes to Promote Efficient Cassava Delivery

S12-2 Chris Legg Christopher.legg@blueyonder.co.uk
GIS and GPS Applications to Target Dissemination of Disease-Tolerant
Cassava Varieties in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

S12-3 Akwasi Adjekum aaadjekum@yahoo.co.uk
The Smallholder Rehabilitation Development Project (SRDP)

S12-4 Erostus Njuki-Nsubuga ewforce@yahoo.com
Tissue Culture: A Suitable Technology for the Multiplication and Distribution of Pest and Disease Free Cassava Planting Material in Africa

S12-5 George W. Otim-Nape wonape@yahoo.com
From Crisis to Confidence: How Uganda was Saved from a Severe Cassava Mosaic
Disease Epidemic and Lessons for the Future

S12-6 Roosevelt Escobar r.escobar@cgiar.org
In vitro Low Cost Technology: How it Could be Implemented on a Seed System with Small-Scale Farmers

S13: Value Chain and Processing
S13-1 Jim Casey caseyjm@mweb.co.za
A South African Example

S13-2 Antonio Fadel antonio.fadel@halotek.com.br
A Brazilian Starch Processing Industry

S13-3 Oluyemisi Iranloye yemisiiranloye@yahoo.com
Challenges of Industrial Utilization of Cassava in Africa

S13-4 Andrea Serpagli a.serpagli@ifad.org
Regional Cassava Processing and Marketing Initiative

S13-5 Bernardo Ospina b.ospina@cgiar.org
CLAYUCA: Ten Years of Experience Promoting Sustainable Cassava Development in LAC Through Public and Private Partnerships

Plenary Session 2
PS04 Hans Rosling Hans.Rosling@ki.se
Four Decades of The Evolution of Cassava Productivity in the World

PS05 Richard Flavell rflavell@ceres-inc.com
The Cassava Plants of Tomorrow

Wrap-up Session
PS07 H. Ceballos H.Cballos@cgiar.org
Integrated Breeding

PS08 W. Gruissem wgruissem@ethz.ch
Science for Cassava

PS09 J. Tohme j.tohme@cgiar.org
New Projects for Cassava Improvement

PS10 L. Kent lawrence.kent@gatesfoundation.org
Identified Gaps in Cassava R&D

PS11 C. Fauquet iltab@danforthcenter.org
Global Cassava Forum: what's next?

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