Conveners
Grand Challenges in Agricultural Science
- Olena K Vatamaniuk (Plant Biology, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University)
- Arthur Woll (CLASSE)
Food and economic security for smallholder cassava farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is threatened by Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). CBSD causes brown necrotic lesions within the storage roots, rendering them inedible and unmarketable. RNAi technology was applied to develop cassava with durable, high-level, resistance to CBSD. Sequences from the coat proteins (CP) of CBSV and UCBSV were...
Deficiencies of metal micronutrients commonly limit plant growth and crop yields. Furthermore, as most people rely on plants as their dietary source of micronutrients, plants that serve as better sources of essential nutrients would improve human health. We combine genetics, high throughput elemental analysis via inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and high-resolution...
Concerns about Food Security and on how to address issues relevant to this global challenge are recurrent and had a worldwide landmark during The World Food Summit, in 1996. Meanwhile, Soil Security is a new concept that has been treated as crucial to guarantee Food Security only after the declaration of the International Year of Soils, in 2015. The assessment and proposition of...
Food and economic security for smallholder cassava farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is threatened by Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). CBSD is caused by the two Ipomoviruses, Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV) and transmitted by African cassava whitefly Bemisia tabaci, and by farmers who plant infected stem cuttings to establish the next cropping...
