Research

International Transit Centre (video)

Plant Physiology

• Somatic embryogenesis
• Cryopreservation
• Cryopreservation of meristem cultures (including routine cryopreservation)
• Cryopreservation of cell suspensions
• Fundamental aspects of cryopreservation
• Molecular plant physiology: proteome analysis of osmotic stress

Molecular biology (video)

• Production of transgenic bananas expressing genes with antifungal activity
• Assessment of fungus resistance in transgenic banana under controlled and field conditions
• Isolation and characterization of banana promoters using T-DNA tagging
• Differential gene expression analysis in Mycosphaerella fijiensis infected Musa spp. by Super SAGE

Nematology

• Culturing and preserving nematodes
• Screening for natural resistance
• Biological control

Overseas collaboration

• Democratric Republic of Congo
• Burundi
• Rwanda
• Tanzania
     
• Brasil
• Ecuador
• Nicaragua