List of acronyms
BBTD Banana bunchy top disease
BBTV Banana bunchy top virus
Bioversity Bioversity International
BXW Banana Xanthomonas wilt
CABI Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International
CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture
CIP International Potato Center
CIRAD Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
CLAYUCA Consortio Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Apoyo a la Investigación y al Desarrollo de la Yuca
CODIPSA Compañía de Desarrollo y de Industrialización de Productos Primarios S.A., Paraguay
CSIR-CRI Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Crops Research Institute, Ghana
CT-LAMP loop-mediated isothermal amplification
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FEDEPLATANO Federación de Productores de Plátano de Colombia
Foc Tr4 Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense – Tropical race 4 (a.k.a. Panama Disease)
GBS Genotyping by sequencing
GWAS Genome-wide association studies
HQCP High-quality cassava peel
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IITA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
KMUTT King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
LAC Latin America and the Caribbean
LTVR Lowland tropics virus-resistant (potato)
NARO National Agricultural Research Organization, Uganda
NGO Non-governmental organization
NRI Natural Resources Institute, UK
OFSP Orange-fleshed sweetpotato
PPD Postharvest physiological deterioration (cassava)
PRA Pest risk analysis
PVS Participatory varietal selection
RAD-Seq Restricted site associated DNA sequencing
RBM Results-based management
RTB CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
RTB-ENDURE Expanding Utilization of Roots, Tubers and Bananas and Reducing Their Postharvest Losses
SSA Sub-Saharan Africa
Univalle Universidad del Valle, Colombia