Acknowledgments
The research grant was provided by NextGen cassava Project to Makerere Regional Centre for Crop improvement (MaRCCI) for the research and training of the first author. The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Uganda hosted field experiments at their experimental field stations and provided field assistance and INTERTEK Australia Lab for sequencing the cassava genotypes.
Funding
Funding for this work was provided by Cornell University through a sub-award agreement (N0.84941-11056 between TARI and Cornell University through Next Generation Cassava Breeding Project
Authors Information
Makerere University, Department of Agricultural Production, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, P.O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
Karoline L. Sichalwe, Richard Edema, Isaac O. Dramadri. Patrick Rubahaiyo
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute, P.O Box 30031, Kibaha,Tanzania
Karoline Sichalwe, Doreen Mgonja
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Plot 25 Mikocheni Industrial Area, Mwenge Coca-Cola Road, Mikocheni Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ismail Kayondo, Edward Kanju
CSIR- Savannah Agriculture Research Institute, Tamale, Ghana
Emmanuel A. Adjei
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute, P.O Box 1433, Mwanza, Tanzania
Heneriko Kulembeka
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), P.O Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya
Wilson Kimani
Authors contributions
The authors made the following contributions to the study: Conceptualization was led by KLS, IK and WK; study design involved KLS, EK, IK; data collection was carried out by KLS: analysis and investigation were conducted by KLS and WK; the writing of the draft and final manuscript was primarily the responsibility of KLS, with contributions from EAA, PR, IOD, EK, DM and IK; the final manuscript was reviewed and approved by all authors; funding acquisition was managed by RE, HK, EK, and ISK; and supervision was provided by PR, EK, and ISK.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest with any one and the funders had no role in the design of the study, data collection, analysis, or interpretation of the results or in the writing of the manuscript.