User: Mel

Name: Mel

Joined: Wednesday 10 June 2009 08:19:00 (UTC)

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Email (public): m.gedil [at] cgiar.org

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Areas of expertise: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; molecular biology, statistics, bioinformatics

Research interest: breeding for disease resistance, breeding for nutritional quality (value-added traits), comparative genomics for gene discovery, microarray based expression studies

Current research activities

The overall goal of the current projects is the development of molecular breeding tools to augment IITAâ€™s germplasm enhancement endeavor involving IITA mandate crops. These include:

1.Â Â Â Â Â The major research efforts are the development of molecular markers for marker-assisted selection/breeding

a.Â Â Â Â Â Â SSR

b.Â Â Â Â Â SNP

2.Â Â Â Â Â Molecular diversity analysis

3.Â Â Reverse Genetics (Tilling)

4.Â Â Bioinformatics/genomics tools for gene discovery in plant traits of agricultural importance

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