Siraj Ismail Kayondo

Siraj Ismail Kayondo is a post-doctoral fellow working with a multidisciplinary cassava molecular breeding research team of the international institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). His work is directed towards accelerating genetic improvement of cassava at the interphase between field breeding, genomic selection (GS) and Marker-assisted selection (MAS). During his PhD, he studied the genetic architecture of resistance to cassava brown streak virus disease (CBSD) using modern genomics tools.