“From Market Demand to Breeding Decisions: A Framework”
This new publication from the CGIAR Gender and Diversity Program, authored by M. Ragot, M. Bonierbale, and E. Weltzien proposes a framework to translate and align stakeholders' needs and demands with product profiles, breeding priorities, and eventually breeding...
Nouvelle France Genetics at Sunflower and Climate Change Symposium in Toulouse, France
We will be present at the "International Symposium on Sunflower and Climate Change" to be held in Toulouse, France February 5 and 6, 2018. Michel Ragot will chair a session and a round table on the "future of sunflower breeding to adapt varieties to climate change"....
Michel Ragot presents “Bottom-up approaches to increasing plant breeding efficiency in Africa” in GOBII seminar series, December 11, 2017
The Genomic Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBII - http://cbsugobii05.tc.cornell.edu/wordpress/) is working on enabling the implementation of genomic and marker assisted selection as part of routine breeding programs for staple crops in the developing...
Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXV
We were at Plant and Animal Genome in San Diego, CA in January and spoke about bottom-up approaches to increasing plant breeding efficiency in Africa. See the abstract and the slides of the talk…