Varieties and Landraces

Marney Pascoli Cereda, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She idealized and was the first Director of a Research Centre specialized in tropical starches. For her activities in research, she received in 2000 the Medal of Merit from the São Paulo Government. She also realized post-doctoral internships in Spain, France and England and technical visits in China, Thailand, Japan, India and in most Central and South American countries. Her researches focus mainly in food technology and development. In food technology she works mainly with food security, food safety and the use of agroindustry’s wastes. In rural agroindustry’s, she works in the development of processes in social technology and valorization of family farming products production by innovative technologies. She developed 3 patents and other 6 are in analysis process. From 2018 she remains an independent researcher and coordinates the Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories. Olivier François Vilpoux, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at “Institut Supérieur D'agriculture” (1991), in France, with a Master’s in Business from the Institut de “Gestion Internationale en Agro Alimentaire” (1992) and a PhD in Business from the “Institut National Polythecnique de Lorraine” (1997), France. From 2004 to 2019 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Campo Grande (UCDB) and Professor of the Master and Doctorate Program in Local Development (UCDB), Brazil. From 2014 to 2019 he has been professor of the Doctorate in business at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Currently he is professor of the Master of Management and Environmental Technology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). He works mainly on the following themes: collective action, cooperatives and family farming.

1. Introduction. Economic and social Importance of crops that storage starch in underground organs
2. Global competition of starch extraction from cereals and plants that accumulate starch in underground organs
3. Bioactive compounds as way of valorizate the crops that accumulate starch in underground
4. Colombia/Venezuela/ Andean highlands: Arrowroot, (Maranta arundinacea, (L.) y Queensland arrowroot (Canna edulis). Present state of culture and future challenges
5. South America: Production of arrowroot seedlings for commercial planting. How to work around a problem
6. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Potato (Solanum tuberosum (L.) commercial and traditional cultivation in South America
7. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Potato (Solanum tuberosum) cultivation and landraces with potencial for market
8. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Peruvian carrot (Arracaccia xanthorriza); Oka (Oxalis tuberosa); Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum);
9. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: A study of the starch qualities of Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) Mexico and South America
10. R&T cultivados em Yucatán, México. cultivation and landraces with potencial for market. Starch compareson
11. Yan bean (Pachyrrizus tuberosus ; P.erosus) cultivation and landraces with potencial for market
12. Peruvian carrot Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Bancr. cultivation and landraces with potencial for market
13. Cassava commercial and traditional cultivation in South America
14. Cassava cyanogenic glycosides: biosynthesis, distribution, detoxification, and dosage methods
15. Cassava Molecular tools for agricultural development
16. Cassava Genetic variability of cassava landraces
17. Yams (Dioscorea sp.) cultivation and landraces with potencial for market
18. Brazilian savannah and Pantanal (Cerrado) Caracterization of "caeté"Calathes allouia, C. grandifolia Aubl. Lindt.) as starchy crpo
19. Amazonas forest (Brazil, Equador, Colombia and Venezuela) Case study of "mairá" potato (Casimirella sp.)and its potential as a starchy crop in Brazilian Amazonia
20. Other minor