Mercy Kitavi, Author at Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal

Building resilient food systems for Sub-Sahara Africa through genomics assisted breeding

Mercy Kitavi October 3, 2017 News 2

And te tide and te time þat tu iboren (time and tide wait for no man) In traditional African setting, we say time waits for no man and doesn’t spare the women either. At exactly half past five ante meridiem in East Africa, the cock crows, a woman (Kanini, meaning …

Mercy Kitavi June 15, 2016 Uncategorized Comments Off on Integrating genomics and molecular markers into sweetpotato breeding

Thirty Sweetpotato SpeedBreeders attended a workshop on the use of genomic and molecular tools in Nairobi’s ILRI campus. The workshop took place from 6th to 7th June, as a prelude to the 15th Sweetpotato Breeders and Genomics annual meeting. The workshop was organized by the GT4SP project under the …