Invited Speaker
Prof. Sijun Zheng

Prof. Sijun Zheng

Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, China
Speech Title: Unravelling the Defense Mechanisms of Banana Cultivars Against Fusarium wilt TR4, Including Responses to Elicitor Application

Abstract: To be updated


Biography: Sijun Zheng, Pathology scientist working at Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT/Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Mainly work on the use of agrobiodiversity for sustainable agricultural production system with focus on the Greater Mekong Subregion and China; evaluation, screening and utilization of banana germplasm for Fusarium resistance and unravelling its underlying mechanism of resistance both in aboveground and belowground. Recent research outputs have been published in eLife, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal of Fungi, etc.

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