Name: COME CLEAN go CLEAN: Are we declaring war to pest and diseases: How epidemiology, pest and disease management, molecular diagnostics, and disease monitoring will shield our crops.
Start: 2018-10-23T10:30:00-0500
End: 2018-10-23T12:30:00-0500

When, Where and How will Tropical Root and Tuber Crops Lead the Next Agri-Food Revolution

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COME CLEAN go CLEAN: Are we declaring war to pest and diseases: How epidemiology, pest and disease management, molecular diagnostics, and disease monitoring will shield our crops.

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Chairs, Co-Chairs and Speakers

Prempeh Ruth Naa Ashiokai

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CSIR - CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Cassava Breeder/Biotechnologist

Martha Giraldo

Associate professor, University of Puerto Rico

I work for the University of Puerto Rico, Agriculture Experiment Station (AES) were we maintain root crop collections consist of different accessions from yams (Dioscorea spp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and tanier (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), these... Read More →

Maruthi Gowda

Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

The ISTRC is the only global forum for all tropical root and tuber crops and has been serving the root and tuber crops global community since 1967. Root and tuber crops are becoming increasingly important with respect to contributing to rural and urban livelihoods, food security... Read More →