Xue-Jun Ge
Focus of Fellowship: Genetic Diversity of the Wild Banana Musa balbisiana in China. The project will help better understand and evaluate this germplasm resource for breeding programs, and will enhance the cooperation between China and INIBAP.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI. |
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"I am very much delighted to know the acceptance and funding of my proposal. This grant will significantly help me to continue my ongoing studies on the genetic background of the wild banana Musa balbisiana, an important progenitor of the banana crop of the world."
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Geetha Rani
Focus of Fellowship: Characterization of genetic diversity of finger millet - Eleusine coracana. The objective of the study is to undertake characterization of the finger millet collection in the ICRISAT genebank in order to identify suitable varieties for efffective utilization, better yield, better cooking or eating quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic streeses. The study will identify suitable varieties for the local environment in India.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI.
Report of findings. February 2005. |
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"On receipt of the announcement, I am delighted and my dream comes true in getting the prestigious IFAR fellowship. The study would make significant contribution in making tribal and rural poor getting access and use of germplasm conserved in the genebank."
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Reuben Muasya
Focus of Fellowship: Modelling geneflow to assess the risk of introducing transgenic varieties into traditional cropping systems of maize in Western Kenya.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI.
Report of findings. December 2004. |
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"I am extremely delighted and grateful for the IFAR grant as it will enable me make my contribution to scientific knowledge in keeping with the objective of IFAR, to support development of agriculture. Developing countries need to keep up with research on emerging issues such as the introduction of genetically modified crops. In endeavor to explore and quantify factors affecting geneflow to assess the risk posed to biodiversity by introduction of genetically modified crops in traditional cropping systems of western Kenya."
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Helga Rodriguez von Platen
Focus of Fellowship: The objective of this research is to obtain a molecular fingerprint of the banana hybrids developed at the Fundacion Hondurena de Investigacion Agricola with microsatellite markers and validate its usefulness as a means to uniquely identify the hybrids within a Costa Rican collection.
The sponsoring Center is IPGRI.
Report of findings. February 2005. |
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Christian O. Thine
Focus of Fellowship: Application of GIS and remote sensing in characterization of soil hydraulic properties for soil quality assessment.
The sponsoring Center is theWorldAgroforestry Centre/ICRAF.
Report of findings. December 2004. |
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"I have long believed in the urgency of working on land degradation in my country. It is gratifying to see that IFAR is also convinced of this. This award has renewed my confidence and commitment to collaborate with other professionals in restoring soil resources for poor farmers."
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Jules Bayala
Focus of Fellowship: Physiological functioning of five-year old planted West African provenances of Vitellaria paradoxa in Gonse, Burkina Faso.
The sponsoring Center is the WorldAgroforestry Centre/ICRAF.
Report of findings. December 2004. |
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"I am very honoured to be a grantee of your institution. This grant will be extremely useful in helping me to investigate the provenances in trial for the most limiting factor in our farming system and on the most important species of agroforestry parkland systems in my country."
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Zachee Ngoko
Focus of Fellowship: Research capacity building on mycotoxins in Cameroon through a study on diversity in Fusarium species causing ear rots of maize and sorghum in Cameroon, West Africa.
The sponsoring Center is IITA.
Report of findings. December 2004. |
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Tilahun Tekle Habtemichael
Focus of Fellowship: Evaluation of trypanocidal drug resistance to field isolates of Trypanosomes from three areas of Ethiopia. These areas are: the Ghibe valley, the Dedessa valley, and Arba Minch areas.
The sponsoring Center is ILRI. |
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"It is a very great pleasure for me to have such an opportunity in order to identify the problem of drug resistance, which is currently a threat to a livelihood of 40% of the lowland inhabited Ethiopian farmers. Therefore, I am hoping that the out of this research activity will provide a clue to solve the problem." |
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Peter Gathumbi
Focus of Fellowship: Further characterization of efficacy and safety of medicinal plant extracts used to treat East Coast Fever (Theileria Parva) infections in cattle.
The sponsoring Center is ILRI.
Report of findings. December 2004. |
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"I am optimistic that this work will yield new information that will open more opportunities for research and development in this field. I am grateful to ILRI and CGIAR system for this opportunity and I look forward to a productive implementation of the project and more linkages in the future." |
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Hema Drissa
Focus of Fellowship: Development of rice lines for drought prone rice production systems in Burkina Faso.
The sponsoring Center is WARDA |
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