Webinar: Cyanogenic glucosides in cassava from the breeding perspective

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Speaker: Hernán Ceballos (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia)

With over 20 years of experience in cassava breeding and more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Hernán Ceballos is a leading expert in tropical crop improvement. His work includes identifying a dominant gene for tar spot complex resistance in maize, advancing quantitative genetics models for epistasis, and pioneering innovations in cassava such as breeding-value–based parent selection, starch mutation discovery, rapid-cycling recurrent selection, high-throughput nutritional phenotyping, and protocols to induce early flowering in non-flowering genotypes. Dr. Hernán Ceballos’s contributions have been recognized with major honors including Colombia’s National Award on Technological Innovation (2008), the Golden Cassava Prize (2018), and the ISTRC Lifetime Achievement Award (2018).

Chaired by Carlos Iglesias (International Safe Cassava Network)