Generation Challenge Programme

GRM participants were invited to present a poster on GCP work, or on work related to GCP’s mission for non-GCP scientists.

Posters were grouped by the four themes listed further below in the 'Poster PDFs' section. The idea was for communication and fun whilst sharing information. The scope of the posters was to be exciting results from GCP projects, or non-GCP work which is however related to GCP’s mission. Striking concepts and methodologies were also welcome.

In line with the previous ARM poster sessions, presenters were faced with the challenge of engaging the audience and employing the necessary powers of persuasion to 'sell' their respective posters as the best of the bunch - and all in  Powerpoint-barred presentations of 60 seconds or less! Besides a ticking clock, poster presenters were also restricted to using only  their presentation-making skills, charm, wit and creativity. Unlike in previous years, transparencies were not allowed, though other, more ‘unusual’ visual aids were encouraged. Besides time and material limitations, presenters were encouraged to let their imagination, creativity, and all-important sense of humour roam free!

As in previous years, the poster presentations were followed by poster viewing sessions, in which our GRM audience were asked to cast votes for their favourite posters within each of the four themes. The winning posters are announced in the poster winners gallery further below.

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Public vote and performance awards | Poster PDFs

Participants at the 2011 GRM were invited to present a poster on GCP work, or on work related to GCP’s mission for non-GCP scientists.

Posters were grouped by the four themes listed further below in the 'Poster PDFs' section. The idea was for communication and fun whilst sharing information. The scope of the posters was to be exciting results from GCP projects, or non-GCP work which is however related to GCP’s mission. Striking concepts and methodologies were also welcome.

In line with the previous ARM poster sessions, presenters were faced with the challenge of engaging the audience and employing the necessary powers of persuasion to 'sell' their respective posters as the best of the bunch - and all in  Powerpoint-barred presentations of 60 seconds or less! Besides a ticking clock, poster presenters were also restricted to using only  their presentation-making skills, charm, wit and creativity. Unlike in previous years, transparencies were not allowed, though other, more ‘unusual’ visual aids were encouraged. Besides time and material limitations, presenters were encouraged to let their imagination, creativity, and all-important sense of humour roam free!

As in previous years, the poster presentations were followed by poster viewing sessions, in which our GRM audience were asked to cast votes for their favourite posters within each of the four themes.  The winning posters are announced in the poster winners gallery below.

Public vote and performance awards

There were two categories of awards to certify and celebrate the posters presented.

• A public vote for the winning poster for each of the four themes (and therefore objective and based on indisputable metrics), and,
• Performance awards, mostly for creativity and prowess when 'selling' the poster during the 60-second sizzle at plenary (zero metrics, and completely subjective, based purely on the perception of the poster session organisers).

Gallery of Poster Winners

Public vote awards

Theme 1 WinnerComparative and Applied Genomics

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Performance Awards

Coordinated Marketing AwardArllet Portugal & Clarissa Pimentel

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Poster PDFs

Comparative and applied genomics | Integrated crop breeding | Crop information systems |
Capacity building & Product delivery | Extras

Theme 1 - Comparative and applied genomics
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Cassava	Development of a genetic resources base for drought and biotic stress improvement in cassava (1.29 MB)	Morag Ferguson	Morag Ferguson
Maize	QTLs and Genes for Aluminium Tolerance in Maize (1.2 MB)	Claudia Guimarães	Claudia Guimarães
Pigeonpea	Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for diversity analysis and linkage mapping in pigeonpea (Caja (659.27 kB)	Rachit K Saxena	Rachit K Saxena
Rice	Genetic Architecture of Aluminum Tolerance in Rice (O. sativa) Determined Through Genome-Wide Associ (1.52 MB)	Adam Famoso	Leon Kochian
Sorghum	Identification and Validation of Maize and Sorghum Homologs for Pup1, a major QTL for P Uptake in Ri (1.43 MB)	Jurandir Magalhães	Jurandir Magalhães
Maize and sorghum Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Improving grain yield on acid soils by the identification of genetic factors underlying drought and (667.45 kB)	Leon Kochian	Leon Kochian

Theme 2 - Integrated crop breeding
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Beans	Improving drought adaptation in Pinto bean for the semiarid highlands of Mexico	Jorge A. Acosta-Gallegos	Steve Beebe
	Improving common bean productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa (976.38 kB)	Steve Beebe	Steve Beebe
Cassava	Participatory clonal evaluation of introduced cassava genotypes in agro-ecological zones of Ghana	Elizabeth Yaa Parkes	Ruth Thompson
	Integrated breeding strategies for disease resistant and nutritious cassava varieties (756.27 kB)	Chiedozie Egesi	Chiedozie Egesi
	Preliminary genetic linkage mapping of cassava (Manihot esculenta) using SNP markers (495.3 kB)	Kwabena Acheremu	Elizabeth Yaa Parkes
Chickpeas	Deployment of molecular markers for developing high yielding wilt resistance chickpea genotypes (702.48 kB)	Bharadwaj Chellapilla	Bharadwaj Chellapilla
	Improving drought tolerance of Kenyan chickpea variety by introgressing root QTL traits using Marker Assisted Backcross Crossing (MABC) (1.1 MB)	Paul Kimurto	Paul Kimurto
	Integrated chickpea breeding approach to enhance crop responses to climate change in Ethiopia (244.99 kB)	Asnake Fikre	Asnake Fikre
	Development and implementation of genomic and genetic resources for improving chickpea productivity for marginal environments in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia (863.15 kB)	Rajeev K Varshney, Mahendar Thudi	Mahendar Thudi
Cowpeas Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Application of Marker-Assisted Selection for Striga Resistance in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. WALP) (364.93 kB)	J.B.S. Tignègre	J.B.S. Tignègre
Groundnuts	Pattern of flowering and yield components under water stress imposed during reproductive phase in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) (567.7 kB)	Halilou Oumarou	Halilou Oumarou
	Consensus genetic maps for drought tolerance related traits and foliar diseases resistance traits in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) (438.21 kB)	Rajeev Varshney, Manish Pandey	Manis Pandey
Maize	Maize genetic analysis of gray leaf spot resistance (1.99 MB)	Fan Xingming
	Development of Maize Drought Tolerance in Indonesia: Status and Progress (255.56 kB)	Azrai Muhammad	Azrai Muhammad
	Screening for tolerance to Al toxicity and P-efficiency in Kenyan maize germplasm (1.15 MB)	Samuel Gudu	Samuel Gudu
	Exploiting the genetic diversity of available maize germplasm using SSR markers to cluster inbred lines collection at KARI Katumani (322.02 kB)	James G. Gethi	James G. Gethi
	Asian Maize Drought Tolerance (AMDROUT) Project: Perspectives and Progress (398.28 kB)	Bindiganavile Vivek	Bindiganavile Vivek
Rice	The use of crop growth performance data for characterization and mapping of variability in soil water holding capacity (131.8 kB)	Alhassan Tswako Maji	Alhassan Tswako Maji
	Pyramiding of resistance QTL/gene into Mekong mega varieties using marker-assisted backcrossing (15.97 MB)	Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw	Jonaliza Lanceras-Sinagliw
	Root phenotyping for drought tolerance: Evaluation of the OryzaSNP panel using a range of methods (1.68 MB)	Amelia Henry	Amelia Henry
	Is drought screening in dry season reliable for genotype selection for rainfed lowland rice- a case study in Laos? (406.16 kB)	Phetmaniseng Xangsayasane	Boonrat Jongdee
	MAGIC Rice: production, characterization, and its use in breeding networks (472.97 kB)	Hei Leung	Hei Leung
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Development of drought-tolerant rice varieties adapted to West Africa lowland agrosystem (613.8 kB)	Ibnou Dieng	Ibnou Dieng
Sorghum	Variability for post-flowering drought tolerance in sorghum reference set (2.9 MB)	Hari Deo Upadhyaya	Hari Deo Upadhyaya
	Development of sorghum isogenic male sterile and restorer lines and isogenic hybrids for use as a tool in field validation of the effect of the gene for aluminium tolerance - AltSB	Robert E. Schaffert
	Phenotyping of panicle characteristics in a sorghum mapping population in Mali (433.97 kB)	Dramane Sako	Dramane Sako
	Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum gemplasm for Africa and Australia (67.03 kB)	Andrew Borrell	Andrew Borrell
Wheat	Exploiting AB genome diversity for creating new wheat germplasm for enhanced drought and heat tolerance (1.71 MB)	Misra S.	Misra S.
	Association mapping of dynamic developmental plant height in common wheat (921.85 kB)	Ruilian Jing	Yueqiang Zhang
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Physiological trait based phenotyping of international core set for drought tolerance in wheat (1.69 MB)	K V Prabhu	KV Prabhu

Theme 3: Crop information systems
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Construction of genetic linkage maps and mapping of quantitative trait loci in QTL IciMapping v3.1 (270.19 kB)	Jiangkang Wang
	Molecular characterisation of Burkina Faso rice landraces using 22 microsatellite markers and establishment of a core collection (284.74 kB)	Honoré Kam	Honoré Kam
	Coverage based consensus calling (CbCC) of short sequence reads and comparison of CbCC-results for the identification of SNPs in chickpea, a crop species without a reference genome (166.49 kB)	RK Varshney, Trushar Shah	Trushar Shah
	ISMU: An easy-to-use pipeline for identification of SNPs based on next generation sequencing (NGS) data (1.1 MB)	Abhishek Rathore, RK Varshney	Abhishek Rathore
	Expansion of the crop ontology by adding Cassava trait ontology (475.91 kB)  Expansion of the GCP crop ontology with Musa (Bananas and Plantains) Anatomy and trait ontology (273.67 kB)	Peter Arthur Kulakow	Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis and Moshood Bakare
	To contribute crop traits lists using the new online crop ontology curation and annotation tool (632.02 kB)	Elizabeth Arnaud	Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis and Moshood Bakare
	QuMARS, A QU-GENE application module that simulates marker assisted recurrent selection and genomic (156.49 kB)	Jiankang Wang
	A new web interface for rice germplasm and breeding data: integrated data browser and studyMart (369.98 kB)	Chengzhi Liang	Jeff Morales
	Molecular breeding services at IBP/GCP (399.38 kB)	Chunlin He	Chunlin He
	Generation atlas scaling up GCP research (1.52 MB)	Glenn Hyman	Glenn Hyman
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Data and information management service of IBP (420.74 kB)	Arllet Portugal	Arllet Portugal and Clarissa Pimentel

Theme 4. Capacity building and Product delivery
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Exploiting the benefits of sharing knowledge and technology among research partners towards a cassava MAB-based program: experiences from Uganda (722.98 kB)	Anthony Pariyo	Anthony Pariyo
	TL-I students for analysis of drought tolerance in common bean (312.76 kB)	Steve Beebe	Steve Beebe
	Introgression of Saltol and fine-mapping of reproductive-stage QTLs to develop rice varieties highly tolerant of salt stress (487.16 kB)	Abdelbagi M. Ismail	Md. Sazzadur Rahman
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Communities of practice generation challenge initiative for rice in West Africa	Andrew A. Efisue

Extra posters
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Growth and control of leaf water losses of tropical legumes cowpea and peanut in response to atmospheric pressure (553.52 kB)	Issa Faye	Issa Faye
	Identification and marker assisted introgression of multiple genes for the improvement of bacterial blight resistance in Myanmar rice variety Manawthukha (262.87 kB)	Khin Myo Win	Khin Myo Win

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Theme 1 - Exploiting allelic diversity
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Genetic studies on yield components in early generations notes: of interspecifc rice populations		A. Efisue
	Study of Burkina Faso rice landraces diversity and breeding for resistance to Rice Yellow Mottle Vir (149.84 kB)		K. Honore
	Phenotyping maize inbred lines for the maximum utilization of drought tolerance in maize (122.97 kB)		J. Gethi
	A whole genome scan of cultivated sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench): Evolving diversity in the light of different marker systems (169.46 kB)		JC Glaszman
	Genome-wide Survey (HaplOryza) in Rice (216.55 kB)		C. Billot
	Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced drought/heat tolerance using AB genomes (95.2 kB)		S. Misra
	Genotyping validation of GCP reference sets (881.22 kB)		Sarah McGrath
	A genetic model for the female sterility barrier between Asian and African cultivated rice species		A Ghesquiere
	Magic: Facilitating gene discovery in rice (360.92 kB)		H Leung
	Phenotyping sorghum reference set for post-flowering drought tolerance (206.27 kB)		H Upadhyaya
Theme 2 - Genomic resources and gene/pathway discovery
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Theme 3: Marker development and breeding applications
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Theme 4. Support services and enabling delivery (incorporating training and capacity building)
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter

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Public vote and performance awards | Poster PDFs

Participants at the 2011 GRM were invited to present a poster on GCP work, or on work related to GCP’s mission for non-GCP scientists.

Posters were grouped by the four themes listed further below in the 'Poster PDFs' section. The idea was for communication and fun whilst sharing information. The scope of the posters was to be exciting results from GCP projects, or non-GCP work which is however related to GCP’s mission. Striking concepts and methodologies were also welcome.

In line with the previous ARM poster sessions, presenters were faced with the challenge of engaging the audience and employing the necessary powers of persuasion to 'sell' their respective posters as the best of the bunch - and all in  Powerpoint-barred presentations of 60 seconds or less! Besides a ticking clock, poster presenters were also restricted to using only  their presentation-making skills, charm, wit and creativity. Unlike in previous years, transparencies were not allowed, though other, more ‘unusual’ visual aids were encouraged. Besides time and material limitations, presenters were encouraged to let their imagination, creativity, and all-important sense of humour roam free!

As in previous years, the poster presentations were followed by poster viewing sessions, in which our GRM audience were asked to cast votes for their favourite posters within each of the four themes.  The winning posters are announced in the poster winners gallery below.

Public vote and performance awards

There were two categories of awards to certify and celebrate the posters presented.

• A public vote for the winning poster for each of the four themes (and therefore objective and based on indisputable metrics), and,
• Performance awards, mostly for creativity and prowess when 'selling' the poster during the 60-second sizzle at plenary (zero metrics, and completely subjective, based purely on the perception of the poster session organisers).

Gallery of Poster Winners

Public vote awards

Theme 1 WinnerComparative and Applied Genomics

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Performance Awards

The Deep and Wide AwardSteve Beebe

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Poster PDFs

Comparative and applied genomics | Integrated crop breeding | Crop information systems |
Capacity building & Product delivery | Extras

Theme 1 - Comparative and applied genomics
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Cassava	Development of a genetic resources base for drought and biotic stress improvement in cassava (1.29 MB)	Morag Ferguson	Morag Ferguson
Maize	QTLs and Genes for Aluminium Tolerance in Maize (1.2 MB)	Claudia Guimarães	Claudia Guimarães
Pigeonpea	Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for diversity analysis and linkage mapping in pigeonpea (Caja (659.27 kB)	Rachit K Saxena	Rachit K Saxena
Rice	Genetic Architecture of Aluminum Tolerance in Rice (O. sativa) Determined Through Genome-Wide Associ (1.52 MB)	Adam Famoso	Leon Kochian
Sorghum	Identification and Validation of Maize and Sorghum Homologs for Pup1, a major QTL for P Uptake in Ri (1.43 MB)	Jurandir Magalhães	Jurandir Magalhães
Maize and sorghum Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Improving grain yield on acid soils by the identification of genetic factors underlying drought and (667.45 kB)	Leon Kochian	Leon Kochian

Theme 2 - Integrated crop breeding
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
Beans	Improving drought adaptation in Pinto bean for the semiarid highlands of Mexico	Jorge A. Acosta-Gallegos	Steve Beebe
	Improving common bean productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa (976.38 kB)	Steve Beebe	Steve Beebe
Cassava	Participatory clonal evaluation of introduced cassava genotypes in agro-ecological zones of Ghana	Elizabeth Yaa Parkes	Ruth Thompson
	Integrated breeding strategies for disease resistant and nutritious cassava varieties (756.27 kB)	Chiedozie Egesi	Chiedozie Egesi
	Preliminary genetic linkage mapping of cassava (Manihot esculenta) using SNP markers (495.3 kB)	Kwabena Acheremu	Elizabeth Yaa Parkes
Chickpeas	Deployment of molecular markers for developing high yielding wilt resistance chickpea genotypes (702.48 kB)	Bharadwaj Chellapilla	Bharadwaj Chellapilla
	Improving drought tolerance of Kenyan chickpea variety by introgressing root QTL traits using Marker Assisted Backcross Crossing (MABC) (1.1 MB)	Paul Kimurto	Paul Kimurto
	Integrated chickpea breeding approach to enhance crop responses to climate change in Ethiopia (244.99 kB)	Asnake Fikre	Asnake Fikre
	Development and implementation of genomic and genetic resources for improving chickpea productivity for marginal environments in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia (863.15 kB)	Rajeev K Varshney, Mahendar Thudi	Mahendar Thudi
Cowpeas Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Application of Marker-Assisted Selection for Striga Resistance in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. WALP) (364.93 kB)	J.B.S. Tignègre	J.B.S. Tignègre
Groundnuts	Pattern of flowering and yield components under water stress imposed during reproductive phase in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) (567.7 kB)	Halilou Oumarou	Halilou Oumarou
	Consensus genetic maps for drought tolerance related traits and foliar diseases resistance traits in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) (438.21 kB)	Rajeev Varshney, Manish Pandey	Manis Pandey
Maize	Maize genetic analysis of gray leaf spot resistance (1.99 MB)	Fan Xingming
	Development of Maize Drought Tolerance in Indonesia: Status and Progress (255.56 kB)	Azrai Muhammad	Azrai Muhammad
	Screening for tolerance to Al toxicity and P-efficiency in Kenyan maize germplasm (1.15 MB)	Samuel Gudu	Samuel Gudu
	Exploiting the genetic diversity of available maize germplasm using SSR markers to cluster inbred lines collection at KARI Katumani (322.02 kB)	James G. Gethi	James G. Gethi
	Asian Maize Drought Tolerance (AMDROUT) Project: Perspectives and Progress (398.28 kB)	Bindiganavile Vivek	Bindiganavile Vivek
Rice	The use of crop growth performance data for characterization and mapping of variability in soil water holding capacity (131.8 kB)	Alhassan Tswako Maji	Alhassan Tswako Maji
	Pyramiding of resistance QTL/gene into Mekong mega varieties using marker-assisted backcrossing (15.97 MB)	Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw	Jonaliza Lanceras-Sinagliw
	Root phenotyping for drought tolerance: Evaluation of the OryzaSNP panel using a range of methods (1.68 MB)	Amelia Henry	Amelia Henry
	Is drought screening in dry season reliable for genotype selection for rainfed lowland rice- a case study in Laos? (406.16 kB)	Phetmaniseng Xangsayasane	Boonrat Jongdee
	MAGIC Rice: production, characterization, and its use in breeding networks (472.97 kB)	Hei Leung	Hei Leung
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Development of drought-tolerant rice varieties adapted to West Africa lowland agrosystem (613.8 kB)	Ibnou Dieng	Ibnou Dieng
Sorghum	Variability for post-flowering drought tolerance in sorghum reference set (2.9 MB)	Hari Deo Upadhyaya	Hari Deo Upadhyaya
	Development of sorghum isogenic male sterile and restorer lines and isogenic hybrids for use as a tool in field validation of the effect of the gene for aluminium tolerance - AltSB	Robert E. Schaffert
	Phenotyping of panicle characteristics in a sorghum mapping population in Mali (433.97 kB)	Dramane Sako	Dramane Sako
	Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum gemplasm for Africa and Australia (67.03 kB)	Andrew Borrell	Andrew Borrell
Wheat	Exploiting AB genome diversity for creating new wheat germplasm for enhanced drought and heat tolerance (1.71 MB)	Misra S.	Misra S.
	Association mapping of dynamic developmental plant height in common wheat (921.85 kB)	Ruilian Jing	Yueqiang Zhang
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Physiological trait based phenotyping of international core set for drought tolerance in wheat (1.69 MB)	K V Prabhu	KV Prabhu

Theme 3: Crop information systems
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Construction of genetic linkage maps and mapping of quantitative trait loci in QTL IciMapping v3.1 (270.19 kB)	Jiangkang Wang
	Molecular characterisation of Burkina Faso rice landraces using 22 microsatellite markers and establishment of a core collection (284.74 kB)	Honoré Kam	Honoré Kam
	Coverage based consensus calling (CbCC) of short sequence reads and comparison of CbCC-results for the identification of SNPs in chickpea, a crop species without a reference genome (166.49 kB)	RK Varshney, Trushar Shah	Trushar Shah
	ISMU: An easy-to-use pipeline for identification of SNPs based on next generation sequencing (NGS) data (1.1 MB)	Abhishek Rathore, RK Varshney	Abhishek Rathore
	Expansion of the crop ontology by adding Cassava trait ontology (475.91 kB)  Expansion of the GCP crop ontology with Musa (Bananas and Plantains) Anatomy and trait ontology (273.67 kB)	Peter Arthur Kulakow	Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis and Moshood Bakare
	To contribute crop traits lists using the new online crop ontology curation and annotation tool (632.02 kB)	Elizabeth Arnaud	Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis and Moshood Bakare
	QuMARS, A QU-GENE application module that simulates marker assisted recurrent selection and genomic (156.49 kB)	Jiankang Wang
	A new web interface for rice germplasm and breeding data: integrated data browser and studyMart (369.98 kB)	Chengzhi Liang	Jeff Morales
	Molecular breeding services at IBP/GCP (399.38 kB)	Chunlin He	Chunlin He
	Generation atlas scaling up GCP research (1.52 MB)	Glenn Hyman	Glenn Hyman
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Data and information management service of IBP (420.74 kB)	Arllet Portugal	Arllet Portugal and Clarissa Pimentel

Theme 4. Capacity building and Product delivery
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Exploiting the benefits of sharing knowledge and technology among research partners towards a cassava MAB-based program: experiences from Uganda (722.98 kB)	Anthony Pariyo	Anthony Pariyo
	TL-I students for analysis of drought tolerance in common bean (312.76 kB)	Steve Beebe	Steve Beebe
	Introgression of Saltol and fine-mapping of reproductive-stage QTLs to develop rice varieties highly tolerant of salt stress (487.16 kB)	Abdelbagi M. Ismail	Md. Sazzadur Rahman
Back to Poster PDFs Back to top	Communities of practice generation challenge initiative for rice in West Africa	Andrew A. Efisue

Extra posters
	Title	Lead Author	Poster Presenter
	Growth and control of leaf water losses of tropical legumes cowpea and peanut in response to atmospheric pressure (553.52 kB)	Issa Faye	Issa Faye
	Identification and marker assisted introgression of multiple genes for the improvement of bacterial blight resistance in Myanmar rice variety Manawthukha (262.87 kB)	Khin Myo Win	Khin Myo Win

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