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Researcher
Rony Swennen
- Disciplines:Biochemistry and metabolism, General biology, Plant biology, Systems biology, Agricultural plant production, Horticultural production, Molecular and cell biology, Biotechnology for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences
Affiliations
- Crop Biotechnics (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Crop Biotechnics (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2005 → 31 Jan 2019
Projects
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- Assessing the potential of wild banana diversity for drought tolerance: Quantifying dynamic traits to fluctuating environmentsFrom1 Oct 2017 → 17 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Microbial Uptakes for Sustainable management of major bananA pests and diseases.From1 Jun 2017 → 30 Nov 2021Funding: H2020 - Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
- Environment and management influence early performance and Xanthomonas wilt in Enset (Ensete ventricosum) in Gamo Highlands, southern EthiopiaFrom16 Mar 2017 → 3 Nov 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Management of the International Musa GenebankFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts, Private funding of national origin - undefined
- Screening wild banana progenitors for resistance.From1 Jan 2017 → 30 Nov 2021Funding: Private funding of national origin - undefined
- Long-term conservation strategy for Banana-CryobankingFrom1 Apr 2016 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: Industrial enterprises
- Addressing water stress in banana-based cropping systems: evaluating the applicability of the AquaCrop computer simulation model for banana plantationsFrom28 Jan 2016 → 30 Dec 2020Funding: VLIR-UOS Vladoc PhD Scholarship
- Mining the Musa biodiversity for drought tolerance: allele discovery via integrated phenomics, proteomics and transcriptomicsFrom6 Oct 2015 → 5 Sep 2019Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Sustainable Enset farming systems for food security and livelihood improvement in Gamo highlands.From10 Apr 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- Biorefinery for bananas.From1 Sep 2012 → 31 May 2013Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
1 - 10 of 247
- Segmental duplications drive the evolution of accessory regions in a major crop pathogen.(2024)
Authors: Rony Swennen
Pages: 610 - 625 - Evidence for metabolite composition underlying consumer preference in Sub-Saharan African Musa spp(2024)
Authors: Rony Swennen
- Datasets from fertilized improved and local varieties of cassava grown in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2024)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Identification of the loci associated with resistance to banana Xanthomonas Wilt (Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum) using DArTSeq markers and continuous mapping(2024)
Authors: Rony Swennen
- Datasets from fertilized improved and local varieties of cassava grown in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- The quest for climate-smart bananas: screening the banana diversity from plant to cell level(2023)
Authors: Clara Gambart, Rony Swennen, Hervé Vanderschuren, Sebastien Carpentier
- Increased cassava growth and yields through improved variety use and fertilizer application in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Developing new in vitro micropropagation and cryopreservation techniques in coconut(2023)
Authors: Hannes Wilms, Rony Swennen, Bart Panis
- Unravelling the diversity in water usage among wild banana species in response to vapour pressure deficit(2023)
Authors: Clara Gambart, Rony Swennen, Sebastien Carpentier
- Maize stover transfers from maize fields to banana-based agroforestry homegardens and the corresponding nutrient flows in central-northern Tanzania(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
Patents
1 - 2 of 2
- Banana promoters (Inventor)
- BANANA PROMOTERS (Inventor)