#AfricaYam phase 2 making significant progress in #improving yam breeding margarita weinfurter and NARS in #West #Africa. Annual planning meeting started today ibadan, #IITA.

AfricaYam phase 2 annual planning meeting started today IITA Ibadan. Project partners have been presenting the great achievement AfricaYam

Trial establishment yam IITA Vish

How could we mechanize yam planting a very challenging task for breeding program as well as for IITA. IITA Asrat Asfaw

Africa is way ahead of Europe in research on genome editing of crops! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Leena Tripathi

A rant: GBLUP does not assume all markers have equally sized effects. It assumes the effects come from a normal distribution (hence different) and it updates this assumption with pheno data, so estimates can be quite different from the initial assumption, with lots of data.

Imagine that tomorrow you wake up and GxE no longer exists. Would you feel happy or sad? #plantbreeding

Grasses tend to be undervalued but have influenced the trajectory of human history through their domestication as food staples, as well as natural ecosystems worldwide. A new special issue of Science explores the unrecognized value of grass: fcld.ly/bo80dpr

Stay tuned! Happening this week at IITA

Reflecting on 11 years of strong Transformative leadership in Agriculture in Africa by Nteranya Sanginga & IITA colleagues as the institutional planning week kicks off. Good progress over time that needs to be continued cc Katherine Lopez Dr Godwin Atser James Legg Dolapo Ogunsola IITA-Start Them Early Program (STEP)

When I took over leadership at IITA, 60% of staff were nearing retirement. Today, we have reversed that situation. Now, we have 60% young scientists that are doing an incredible job in IITA, says Nteranya Sanginga (IITA)CassavaMatters African Development Bank Group #YemiAkinbamijo

7 CGIAR initiatives collaborating on the application of Farming Systems Analysis (FSA) to prioritize tailored/context-specific interventions and target investments for greater impact Fred Kizito MartinKropff Anthony M. Whitbread Katherine Lopez Aymen Frija cgiar.org/news-events/ne…

NASA, dünyadan 100 milyon ışık yılı mesafede yaşama elverişli bir gezegen keşfetti.

And with that, the 2023 Tools for Polyploids workshop comes to an end! We are so pleased with our turnout for our first in-person meeting since 2018. Thank you to all who participated and presented. We hope to see you again next year! 🎉🧬🔬

I am excited to be appointed the 8th Director General of IITA and the 1st Regional Director of the CGIAR for Africa. IITA and CGIAR will be the driving force for food system transformation in #Africa.

🔊#Webinar Join us on Thursday for webinar #2 of our new series "Crops to End Hunger Case Studies in #Africa and Beyond: Supporting CGIAR Partners through Genotyping Services" 📅 24 August 2023 ⏰ 5 pm, #Nairobi time 💻 To join: bit.ly/3srZTnC CGIAR #CtEH IITA

Congrats! #IITA Molecular Breeding Scientist Paterne Agre receives Next Gen Leadership Award AGBT Meeting in Orlando, USA, for achievements on yam genomic discovery & breeding optimization. The Award recognizes young scientists across the globe doing great research in the genomic field.