Credit: David Gilbert, DOE JGI
Members of the International Cassava Genetic Map Consortium (Left to right): Jessen Bredeson, UC Berkeley; Kahya Shuaibu, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Nigeria; Oluwafemi Alaba, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria; Cindy Ha, formerly of UC Berkeley and now at the University of Colorado; Jessica Lyons, UC Berkeley; Chiedozie Egesi, formerly of NRCRI and now project manager for NEXTGEN Cassava at Cornell University; Simon Prochnik, DOE JGI; Ismail Rabbi, IITA, Nigeria. Bredeson, Ha, Lyons, Egesi, Prochnik and Rabbi are authors on the paper published ahead online April 18, 2016 in Nature Biotechnology.