PAIX

The main goal of the project is to establish new locally-adapted CBB control strategies in three different areas of the world where severe epidemics occur or are emerging

1. Survey in Latin America, West-Africa and South-East Asia.
2. Molecular characterization of Xam using VNTRs.
3. Characterization of TAL repertoires of most prevalent Xam strains.
4. Search for defective S susceptibility and resistance (executor) R genes in the cassava germplasm 5) Participatory research with farmer organizations.
5. Pan-tropical CBB survey network.

• Sampling and molecular characterization of Xam strains from Latin America, West-Africa and South-East Asia,
• Xam core collection representative of the pathogen population diversity,
• Functional diversity of the TALome of most prevalent Xam strains,
• Identification of cassava susceptibility (S) genes and loss of function alleles,
• Identification of executor resistance gene candidates,
• Knowledge on the impact of agricultural practices on the incidence of CBB,
• Training of next-generation scientists/technicians to CBB survey & diagnosis,
• A unified pan-tropical network on cassava diseases