Juan Manuel Pardo Garcia

#2025Highlights | 💡 Explore the field diary that tracks our expedition to hunt Cassava Witches' Broom in French Guiana. 🌎🕵️‍♀️ The journey, collection, analysis, and diagnosis: follow their adventure to protect this key crop. 🍠🧬 allbiociat.org/4pODRV5

🌧️ Hear from Xiao Wei as she shares how we work hand in hand with smallholder farmers to ensure they are prepared for climate challenges. 🌪️🧐 Discover our innovative methods of upscaling climate information services. 👇Find out more!

🌿 Hosting Assoc. Prof. Wanwisa Siriwan (#Kasetsart Univ.) for a talk on cassava’s defense against #SLCMV! 🗓️ Aug 19 | 11:15 AM | in JKI Connect with me if you’re working on cassava virology & want to join! #Cassava #PlantVirology @Leibniz_DSMZ_en

In new studies published in "Scientific Reports and New Disease Reports", Dr. Wilmer Cuellar and his team from Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT have made strides in the fight against two of the most devastating diseases of Cassava, CFSD & CWBD Source: hubs.li/Q033188h0

🥝🥝🥝Rapid and sensitive detection of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae using recombinase-aided amplification with lateral flow dipstick assay: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

On #frogskin disease 50-year anniversary we present our work on solving this mystery. Search no more, #torradoviruses explain the symptoms on #cassava roots in the Americas. I’m very happy for this achievement @BiovIntCIAT_eng @USAID @CGIAR @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

Disease Alert: The emergence of #cassava witches' broom #disease (#CWBD) in the Americas will require strong regional coordination to minimize its impact on food security and biodiversity @USAID @ACIARAustralia @Euphresco @BiovIntCIAT_eng @embrapa @Cirad doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.7…

VSD #cacao and #CWBD could be sibling diseases, first time observing C. theobromae growing from cacao and cassava petioles at the same time, would it be possible to have plasmogamy with each other?#CassDisseaseAsia cooperation @UPLBOfficial @BiovIntCIAT_eng

Investment in #cassava disease 🦠 research 🔬 in Asia 🇱🇦 🇻🇳 🇰🇭 🇹🇭 paying dividends in LatinAmerica. @BiovIntCIAT_eng diagnostics developed in @CassDiseaseAsia supported by @ACIARAustralia 🇦🇺 @USAID 🇺🇸 confirm #CWBD in 🇧🇷🇬🇾 @embrapa @Cirad 🇫🇷 @CGIAR revistacultivar.com/news/Ministry-…

Si quieren conocer los últimos descubrimientos sobre enfermedades de #yuca en esta región, no se pierdan las presentaciones de Ana Maria Leiva @Analeiva013 y Jenyfer Jimenez @jejipo, esta mañana en el Simposio de @ASCOLFIColombia #cassava #frogskin #escobadebruja @PalmiraUNAL

Last day of 3d Training workshop on Soil sample collection for nutrient analysis to understand soil health in #cassava based cropping system (and other upland cropping systems) visiting NAPHOK station discussing suitable strategies. @ACIARAustralia @CrawfordFund

@BiovIntCIAT_eng #cassava #breeder & #pathologist looking at #CWBD in the variety evaluation in Vietnam 🇻🇳 One seems more excited than the other. #Multidisciplinary @ACIARAustralia @CGIAR

Isolation, genome analysis and tissue localization of Ceratobasidium theobromae, a new encounter pathogen of cassava in Southeast Asia @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @SamarSheat @Khamla99 @Analeiva013 @WarrenArinaitwe @StephanWinter11 @jononewby @WJCuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

Sustainability starts at home. #NAFRI-@BiovIntCIAT_eng working to ensure research stations & multiplications hubs are being managed sustainably. Cropping systems & management for a #sustainable #cassava #seedsystem. @ACIARAustralia @dfat @AusAmbLaos @ScalingAgronomy @CGIAR

The joint @BiovIntCIAT_eng - #NAFRI molecular 🧬 lab 🥼 🧫 in Vientiane 🇱🇦 has been a hive of activity with the @ASEAN @CGIAR @ACIARAustralia training on transboundary #pest & #disease. From rice 🌾 to cassava 🍠 colleagues working together to secure food security & livelihoods.

@BiovIntCIAT_eng @irri Right on time. @JMPardo86 and Dr. Nurmi Pangesti, welcoming participants from Southeast Asia for a week of exchanging information on transboundary pests & diseases #planthealth @ASEAN @ACIARAustralia #CMDinSEA

Many new #varieties from mainland #SEAsia in farmers fields in #Lampung. So many new names. 🤔 Critical need to strengthen the @ASEAN #cassava #breeders network to make sure introduction is happening safely & #disease 🦠 not following. @CGIAR @CGIAR_EMD @CGIARgenetic

📢 The Alliance and @irri are hosting a regional workshop on transboundary pests and diseases in #Laos to foster sustainable and resilient cassava and rice farming systems across #ASEAN. Discover more about the event and its agenda. alliancebioversityciat.org/events/regiona…

With support from the #cassava breeding team, we're exploring the North Coast of #Colombia for the elusive "frog" (cassava frogskin disease), testing molecular #diagnostics and a protocol for early reproduction of symptoms in our cassava "Reina". @USAID @CGIAR @BiovIntCIAT_eng