Ruth Omotola Onasanya (Nigeria)
Focus of Fellowship: Enhancing the sustainability of genetic resistance to rice yellow mottle virus, a major disease of the crop that is indigenous to Africa, based on characterization of the virus population in southern Nigeria.
The sponsoring Center is the Africa Rice Center. |
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Garba Hadiza Anaroua (Niger) - Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Focus of Fellowship: Combating bacterial blight, a major disease of irrigated rice, through a better understanding of blight epidemics and the identification of resistance genes.
The sponsoring Center is the Africa Rice Center. |
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Drissa Sereme (Burkina Faso)
Focus of Fellowship: Identifying sources of durable genetic resistance to the rice yellow mottle virus, which is a major constraint to intensification of rice production in West Africa.
The sponsoring Center is the Africa Rice Center. |
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Siriphorn Jangsutthivorawat (Thailand)
Focus of Fellowship: Developing molecular marker techniques to aid the search for samples of banana wild relatives that need to be conserved for use in genetic improvement of the cultivated crop.
The sponsoring Center is Bioversity International. |
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Herbert Talwana (Uganda)
Focus of Fellowship: Improving the management of a widespread and damaging species of root nematode that attacks banana in the East African highlands, based on a better understanding of the pest’s genetic variability.
The sponsoring Center is Bioversity International. |
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Alganesh Tesema Gellaw (Ethiopia)
Focus of Fellowship: Evaluation of traditional wheat types for tolerance to drought as well as resistance to the major disease stem rust, with the participation of women farmers’ groups.
The sponsoring Center is Bioversity International. |
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Regina Mumbua Tende (Kenya)
Focus of Fellowship: Introduction of genetic resistance to stem borer, a major insect pest of maize, into popular hybrids and varieties grown by Kenyan farmers.
The sponsoring Center is CIMMYT. |
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Hala Mohamed Mustafa Elamein (Sudan)
Focus of Fellowship: Evaluating the genetic variability of wheat lines, using molecular markers, for a variety of important traits, including heat and salinity tolerance.
The sponsoring Center is ICARDA. |
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Olusola Olukemi Odedara (Nigeria)
Focus of Fellowship: Identifying potential virus threats to food legumes like cowpea and groundnut, which are a critical source of protein for African consumers, through the assessment of virus diversity in wild and weed plants of the Nigerian savanna.
The sponsoring Center is IITA. |
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Aimé H. Bokonon-Ganta (Benin)
Focus of Fellowship: Enhancing mango production through the release of an indigenous parasitoid to achieve biological control of fruit flies, a dangerous pest of this economically important fruit crop.
The sponsoring Center is IITA. |
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Nadia Mohammed Osman (Sudan)
Focus of Fellowship: Building a local capacity to use molecular tools for surveillance and control of African animal trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease that causes major losses of cattle.
The sponsoring Center is ILRI. |
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Sanjar Khodjaev (Uzbekistan) - Wilfried Thalwitz Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Focus of Fellowship: Identifying ways to improve irrigation systems in Uzbekistan, with the aim of boosting wheat and cotton productivity, while reducing degradation of soil and water.
The sponsoring Center is IWMI. |
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Phakaporn Tanaparisutti (Thailand)
Focus of Fellowship: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aquaculture systems in Asia through the development of a new method for measuring their “carbon footprint.”
The sponsoring Center is the WorldFish Center. |
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