- Dual-resistant cassava for climate resilience, economic development and increased food security of smallholders in eastern and southern Africa (DualCassava). Contact Professor Maruthi Gowda m.n.maruthi@gre.ac.uk
https://www.nri.org/latest/news/2018/making-cassava-doubly-resilient-nri-tackles-el-nino-and-cassava-diseases - Building Local Capacity for Surveillance Diagnosis, Characterisation and Control of Cassava Viruses in Northern Nigeria. Contact Professor Maruthi Gowda m.n.maruthi@gre.ac.uk
- Transcriptome analysis of virus-infected cassava and yeast-two-hybrid assays for resistance gene mining. Contact Professor Maruthi Gowda m.n.maruthi@gre.ac.uk
- African cassava whitefly project: outbreak causes and sustainable solutions. Contact Professor John Colvin J.Colvin@greenwich.ac.uk, http://cassavawhitefly.org/
- Understanding whitefly bacterial infections and exploring its microbiome diversity using metagenome sequencing
- Identifying resistance to the whitefly Bemisia tabaci in wild cassava accessions, Latin American genotypes and African land races
- Developing novel biopesticide formulation technology for major Lepidopteran crop pests. Contact David Grzywacz D.Grzywacz@greenwich.ac.uk
- Evolutionary biology: roles of novel membrane regulators of plants, microbes and organelles. Contact Elinor Thomposn e.thompson@greenwich.ac.uk
Research Group:
Plant Diseases and Vectors