Contributors

Course content by

 

Course Coordinator

Module 1, Module 2, Module 6 , lessons on drought-prone environments and QTL mapping:

Gary Atlin

Senior Scientist, Lowland Rainfed & Aerobic Rice Breeder,

Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI

 

Canada

 

 

 

 

Lesson on Marker assisted breeding

Bertrand Chao Yung Collard

Post-doctoral Fellow

Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI

 

Australia

 

 

 

Lesson on breeding for grain quality

Melissa Fitzgerald

International Research Fellow

Grain Quality,Nutrition and Post Harvest Research Center, IRRI

 

Australia

 

 

 

Lessons on breeding for salt tolerance and submergence tolerance

Abdelbagi M. Ismail

Senior Scientist, Plant physiology, Crop and Environmental Sciences, IRRI

 

Soedan

 

 

 

Lessons on adoption of improved varieties, breeding for submergence tolerance & MAS

David J. Mackill  

Head

Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI

 

USA

 

 

 

 

Module 6: Participatory approaches

Thelma R. Paris

Senior Scientist, Gender Specialist

Social Sciences, IRRI

 

Philippines

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson on breeding for salt tolerance

Rakesh Kumar Singh

International Research Fellow, Salinity Project, Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biochemistry, IRRI

 

India

 

 

 

Lesson on IP rights and Germplasm exchange

Nigel R. Sackville Hamilton

Senior Scientist, Evolutionary Biology and Head Genetic Resources Center, IRRI

 

United Kingdom

 

 

 

Lesson on drought tolerance: screening

Rachid Serraj

Senior Scientist, Crop Physiology,Crop, Soil and Water Sciences, IRRI

 

Morocco

 

 

 

 

Lesson on disease resistance

Casiana M. Vera Cruz

Senior Scientist, Entomology and Plant Pathology, IRRI

 

Philippines  

 

 

 

 

Lesson on the IRRI irrigated breeding program

Parminder S. Virk

Senior Scientist, Plant Breeding

Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI

 

UK

 

 

 

 

Lesson on hybrid breeding

Fangming Xie

Senior Scientist, Hybrid Rice Breeding

Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI

 

USA

 

 

 

E-course development

and programming by

 

 

Geert Jef Claessens

Training and Courseware Consultant

Training Center, IRRI

 

Belgium

 

 

 

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