Publications by authors named "Salum Kasele"
Article Synopsis
- - Modern plant breeding combines advanced technologies like next-generation sequencing and phenomics to select the best parent plants, aiming to produce superior cultivars that farmers can easily adopt.
- - A robust breeding database is essential for tracking various breeding materials, recording experimental and phenotypic data, storing genotypic information, and supporting analytical algorithms for breeding decisions.
- - The Breedbase system, an open-source web application initially developed for cassava, has evolved to support multiple crops, offering a comprehensive platform for managing breeding data and enhancing decision-making processes in a digital environment.
In Sub-Saharan Africa cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is one of the most important food crops where more than 40% of the population relies on it as their staple carbohydrate source. Biotic constraints such as viral diseases, mainly Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD), and arthropod pests, particularly Cassava Green Mite (CGM), are major constraints to the realization of cassava's full production potential in Africa. To address these problems, we aimed to map the quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with resistance to CBSD foliar and root necrosis symptoms, foliar CMD and CGM symptoms in a full-sib mapping population derived from the genotypes AR40-6 and Albert.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGenetic mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), cassava mosaic disease (CMD), and cassava green mite (CGM) was performed using an F cross developed between the Tanzanian landrace, Kiroba, and a breeding line, AR37-80. The population was evaluated for two consecutive years in two sites in Tanzania. A genetic linkage map was derived from 106 F progeny and 1,974 SNP markers and spanned 18 chromosomes covering a distance of 1,698 cM.
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