RTBfoods main Publications

Michael Adesokan, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Bolanle Otegbayo & Busie Maziya-Dixon (2023). Review of the Use of Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging (NIR-HSI) Techniques for the Non-Destructive Quality Assessment of Root and Tuber Crops. Applied Sciences, 13, 5226. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13095226

Alexandre Bouniol,  Hernan Ceballos,  Bello Abolore,  Béla Teeken,  Deborah Olamide Olaosebikan,  Durodola Owoade,  Agbona Afolabi,  Apollin Fotso Kuate,  Tessy Madu,  Benjamin Okoye,  Miriam Ofoeze,  Solomon Nwafor,  Nnaemeka Onyemauwa,  Laurent Adinsi,  Lora Forsythe,  Dominique Dufour (2023), Varietal impact on women's labour, workload and related drudgery in processing root, tuber and banana crops. Focus on cassava in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12936

Christian Mestres,  Mark Taylor,  Gordon McDougall,  Santiago Arufe,  Thierry Tran,  Ephraim Nuwamanya,  Dominique Dufour,  Mariam Nakitto,  Karima Meghar,  Dominique Rinaldo,  Lea Ollier,  Romain Domingo,  Jhon Larry Moreno,  Luis Fernando Delgado,  Hermann Antonin Kouassi,  N'Nan Afoué Sylvie Diby,  Didier Mbeguie-A-Mbeguie,  Noël Akissoe,  Laurent Adinsi,  Agnès Rolland-Sabate (2023), Contrasting effects of polysaccharide components on the cooking properties of Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTBs). Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12914

Olamide Olaosebikan, Bello Abolore, Kauê de Sousa, Robert Ndjouenkeu, Michael Adesokan, Emmanuel Alamu, Afolabi Agbona, Jacob Van Etten, Franklin Ngoualem Kégah, Dominique Dufour, Alexandre Bouniol, Béla Teeken (2023), Drivers of consumer acceptability of cassava gari-eba food products across cultural and environmental settings using the Triadic Comparison of Technologies approach (tricot). Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12867

Mariam Nakitto, Reuben T Ssali, Suzanne D Johanningsmeier, Mukani Moyo, Henriette de Kock, Ingunn Berget, Julius J Okello, Sarah Mayanja, Samuel Edgar Tinyiro, Thiago Mendes, Yada Benard, Doreen Chelengat, Florence Osaru, Christophe Bugaud (2023), Decision tree scoring system to guide selection for consumer preference in sweetpotato breeding trials. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12883

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Claire Babirye, Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Henry Mutegeki, Ann Lisa Nabiryo, Sudi Murindanyi, Andrew Katumba, Judith Nantongo, Edwin Sserunkuma, Mariam Nakitto, Reuben Ssali , Godwill Makunde, Mukani Moyo, Hugo Campo. (2023). Using Machine Learning for Image-based Analysis of Sweetpotato Root Sensory Attributes. Smart Agricultural Technology, 100291, Early view https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2023.100291

Aurélie Bechoff, Laurent Adinsi, Gérard Ngoh Newilah, Mariam Nakitto, Zoé Deuscher, Reuben Ssali, Ugo Chijioke, Elizabeth Khakasa, Kephas Nowakunda, Alexandre Bouniol, Dominique Dufour, Christophe Bugaud (2023), Combined use of sensory methods for the selection of root, tuber and banana varieties acceptable to end-users., Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12723

Karima Meghar, Thierry Tran, Luis Fernando Delgado, Maria Alejandra Ospina, Jhon Larry Moreno, Jorge Luna, Luis Londoño, Dominique Dufour, Fabrice Davrieux (2023), Hyperspectral imaging for the determination of relevant cooking quality traits of boiled cassava., Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12654

Mahugnon Ezékiel Houngbo, Lucienne Desfontaines, Jean-Louis Diman, Gemma Arnau, Christian Mestres, Fabrice Davrieux, Lauriane Rouan, Grégory Beurier, Marie-Magdeleine Carine, Karima Meghar, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Bolanle O Otegbayo, Denis Cornet (2023), Convolutional neural network allows amylose content prediction in yam (Dioscorea alata L.) flour using near infrared spectroscopy, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12825

Maria A. Ospina, Jhon L. Moreno, Thierry Tran, Angelica M. Jaramillo, Sonia Gallego, Bernardo Ospina, Dominique Dufour (2023), Kinetics of thermal degradation of carotenoids related to potential of mixture of wheat, cassava and sweet potato flours in baking products., Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12831

Adesokan Michael, Alamu Emmanuel Oladeji, Fawole Segun and Maziya-Dixon Busie (2023), Prediction of functional characteristics of gari (cassava flakes) using near-infrared reflectance spectrometry. Frontiers in Chemistry 11:1156718. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2023.1156718

Santiago Arufe, Oluwatoyin Ayetigbo, Romain Domingo, Laurent Adinsi, Imayath Djibril Moussa, Laurenda Honfozo, Noël Akissoé, Alexandre Bouniol and Christian Mestres (2023). Instrumental procedures to assess the extensibility of pounded yam and relationship with sensory stretchability and consumer preferences, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12598

Elizabeth Khakasa, Charles Muyanja, Robert Mugabi, Christophe Bugaud, Nelly Forestier-Chiron, Brigitte Uwimana, Ivan Kabiita Arinaitwe & Kephas Nowakunda (2023). Sensory characterization of the perceived quality of East African Highland Cooking Bananas (Matooke), Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Accepted manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12606

José Francisco Valle, Elizabeth Arnaud, Pricilla Marimo,Jacob van Etten, (2022). Enabling cumulative learning in user-oriented research for root, tuber and banana crop breeding. Expérimental Agriculture, 2022, vol. 58, e58, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479722000539

Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo, Jenna Hershberger, Prasad Peteti, Afolabi Agbona, Andrew Ikpan, Kayode Ogunpaimo, Siraj Ismail Kayondo, Racheal Smart Abioye, Kehinde Nafiu, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Michael Adesokan, Busie Maziya-Dixon, Elizabeth Parkes, Peter Kulakow, Michael A. Gore, Chiedozie Egesi & Ismail Yusuf Rabbi (2022). Predicting starch content in cassava fresh roots using near-infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 990250. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.990250 Supplementary Material: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.990250/full#supplementary-material

Afolabi Agbona, Prasad Peteti, Béla Teeken, Olamide Olaosebikan, Abolore Bello, Elizabeth Parkes, Ismail Rabbi, Lukas Mueller, Chiedozie Egesi & Peter Kulakow (2022). Data Management in Multi-disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding Programs. In: Hugh F. Williamson & Sabina Leonelli Editors, Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development, Springer, 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13276-6

Nicolas Morales, Alex C Ogbonna, Bryan J Ellerbrock, Guillaume J Bauchet, Titima Tantikanjana, Isaak Y Tecle, Adrian F Powell, David Lyon, Naama Menda, Christiano C Simoes, Surya Saha, Prashant Hosmani, Mirella Flores, Naftali Panitz, Ryan S Preble, Afolabi Agbona, Ismail Rabbi, Peter Kulakow, Prasad Peteti, Robert Kawuki, Williams Esuma, Micheal Kanaabi, Doreen M Chelangat, Ezenwanyi Uba, Adeyemi Olojede, Joseph Onyeka, Trushar Shah, Margaret Karanja, Chiedozie Egesi, Hale Tufan, Agre Paterne, Asrat Asfaw, Jean-Luc Jannink, Marnin Wolfe, Clay L Birkett, David J Waring, Jenna M Hershberger, Michael A Gore, Kelly R Robbins, Trevor Rife, Chaney Courtney, Jesse Poland, Elizabeth Arnaud, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Heneriko Kulembeka, Kasele Salum, Emmanuel Mrema, Allan Brown, Stanley Bayo, Brigitte Uwimana, Violet Akech, Craig Yencho, Bert de Boeck, Hugo Campos, Rony Swennen, Jeremy D Edwards & Lukas A Mueller (2022). Breedbase: a digital ecosystem for modern plant breeding, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 12(7), jkac078. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac078

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran, Zelalem Gebeyehu, Dorcus Gemenet, Christian Werner, Marlee Labroo, Solomon Sirak, Peter Coaldrake, Ismail Rabbi, Siraj Ismail Kayondo, Elizabeth Parkes, Edward Kanju, Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo, Afolabi Agbona, Peter Kulakow, Michael Quinn & Jan Debaene (2022). Breeding Schemes: What Are They, How to Formalize Them, and How to Improve Them? Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, e791859. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.791859

Wilfred Abincha, Ugochukwu N. Ikeogu, Robert Kawuki, Chiedozie Egesi, Ismail Rabbi, Elizabeth Parkes, Peter Kulakow, Richard Edema, Paul Gibson & Betty-Elizabeth Owor (2021). Comparison of Near-infrared Spectroscopy with other options for total carotenoids content phenotyping in fresh cassava roots. Applied Sciences, 11, e1714. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041714

Ireti Balogun, Elisabeth Garner, Peter Amer, Peter Fennessy, Bela Teeken, Olamide Olaosebikan, Bello Abolore, Tessy Madu, Benjamin Okoye, Bruno Santos, Tim Byrne, Daniel Martin-Collado, Chiedozie Egesi, Peter Kulakow & Hale Ann Tufan (2022). From traits to typologies: Piloting new approaches to profiling trait preferences along the cassava value chain in Nigeria. Crop Science, Crop Science, 62(1), 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20680

Vincent B., Dardenne P. (2021) Application of NIR in Agriculture. In: Ozaki Y., Huck C., Tsuchikawa S., Engelsen S.B. (eds) Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Theory, Spectral Analysis, Instrumentation and Applications . Springer, Singapore. 331-345. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8648-4_14

Thierry Tran, Xiaofei Zhang, Hernan Ceballos, Jhon L. Moreno, Jorge Luna, Andrés Escobar, Nelson Morante, John Belalcazar, Luis A. Becerra & Dominique Dufour (2021). Correlation of cooking time with water absorption and changes in relative density during boiling of cassava roots. International Journal of Food science and Technology, 56(3), 1193-1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14769

Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Ephraim Nuwamanya, Denis Cornet, Karima Meghar, Michael Adesokan, Thierry Tran, John Belalcazar, Lucienne Desfontaines & Fabrice Davrieux (2021). Near-infrared spectroscopy applications for high-throughput phenotyping for cassava and yam: A review. International Journal of Food science and Technology, 56(3), 1491-1446. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14773

Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo , Ismail Yusuf Rabbi, Morag Elizabeth Ferguson, Siraj Ismail Kayondo, Ng Hwa Eng, Leena Tripathi, Peter Kulakow & Chiedozie Egesi (2021). Technological Innovations for Improving Cassava Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Genetics, 11, n°623736. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.623736

Mukani Moyo, Reuben Ssali, Sam Namanda, Mariam Nakitto, Eric K. Dery, Daniel Akansake, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Jacob van Etten, Kauê de Sousa, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Edward Carey & Tawanda Muzhingi (2021). Consumer Preference Testing of Boiled Sweetpotato Using Crowdsourced Citizen Science in Ghana and Uganda. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.620363

Linly Banda, Mukani Moyo, Mariam Nakitto, Jolien Swanckaert, Arnold Onyango, Esther Magiri, Gordon J Mcdougall, Laurence Ducreux, Mark Taylor, Tawanda Muzhingi (2021). Application of wedge fracture test for texture analysis in boiled sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas). African Journal of Food Science, 15(4), 145-151. N°06392DF66420. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJFS2020.2054

Kwabena Darkwa, Bunmi Olasanmi, Robert Asiedu & Asrat Asfaw (2020). Review of empirical and emerging breeding methods and tools for yam (Dioscorea spp.) improvement: Status and prospects. Plant Breeding, 139(3), 474-497 https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12783

Dorcus C. Gemenet, Mercy N. Kitavi , Maria David , Dorcah Ndege , Reuben T. Ssali, Jolien Swanckaert , Godwill Makunde, G. Craig Yencho, Wolfgang Gruneberg, Edward Carey, Robert O. Mwanga, Maria I. Andrade, Simon Heck, Hugo Campos (2020). Development of diagnostic SNP markers for quality assurance and control in sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] breeding programs. PLoS ONE, 15(4): n° 0232173. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0232173

Ernest Baafi, Mavis Akom, Adelaide Agyeman, Cynthia Darko, Ted Carey (2020). Breeding farmer and consumer preferred sweetpotatoes using accelerated breeding scheme and mother–baby trials. Open Agriculture, 5(1), 548-557 https://doi.org/10.1515/opag-2020-0055

Iragaba P., Nuwamanya E., Wembabazi E., Baguma Y., Dufour D., Earle E.D., Kerr R.B., Tufan H.A., Gore M.A., Kawuki R.S. (2019) Estimates for heritability and consumer-validation of a penetrometer method for phenotyping softness of cooked cassava roots. African Crop Science Journal, 27(2):147-163. https://doi.org/10.4314/acsj.v27i2.3

Shen G., Fernández Pierna J. A., Baeten V., Dardenne P., Davrieux F., Ceballos H., Dufour D., Yang Z., Han L., Lesnoff M. (2019). Local Partial Least Square based on global PLS Scores. Journal of Chemometrics. 33(5), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/cem.3117

External Publications of Interest

Toukir Ahmed, Yuzhen Lu, Arthur Villordon, Mohammed Kamruzzaman (2023). Prediction of Firmness of Sweetpotatoes using VNIR Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning. ASABE Annual International Meeting Presentation, Paper Number: 2301414, Nebraska July 9-12, 2023. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers publisher. https://doi.org/10.13031/aim.202301414

Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera, Riley Balikian, Timothy H. Larson, Donald R. Ort  (2023). Evaluation of the effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on the growth of cassava storage roots by destructive harvests and ground penetrating radar scanning approaches. Plant Cell & Environment.  46(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14474

Jenna Hershberger, Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo, Prasad Peteti, Andrew Ikpan, Kayode Ogunpaimo, Kehinde Nafiu, Ismail Y. Rabbi, Michael A. Gore (2022). Low-cost, handheld near-infrared spectroscopy for root dry matter content prediction in cassava. The Plant Phenome Journal, 5, e20040. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.20040

Drapal Margit, Laura Perez-Fons, Elliott J. Price, Delphine Amah, Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Bettina Heider, Mathieu Rouard, Rony Swennen, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Paul D. Fraser (2022). Datasets from harmonised metabolic phenotyping of root, tuber and banana crop. Data in Brief, 42, 108041, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108041.

Demand-led breeding (DLB) (2020).  Product profiles - A Practitioners Guide: Overview

Demand-led breeding (DLB) (2020).  Product profiles - A Practitioners’ Guide: Creating product profile summaries

Olivier Lepiller, Tristan Fournier, Nicolas Bricas & Muriel Figuié (2021). Méthodes d’investigation de l’alimentation et des mangeurs - MIAM. Versailles, éditions Quæ, 244 p. DOI : 10.35690/978-2-7592-3347-2.https://www.quae.com/produit/1696/9782759233472/methodes-d-investigation-de-l-alimentation-et-des-mangeurs

Wen-Hao Su & Huidan Xue (2021). Imaging Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for Intelligent Determination of Potato and Sweet Potato Quality. Foods, 10, 2146. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10092146

Van Etten, J., Abidin, E., Arnaud, D., Brown, E., Carey, E., Laporte, M.-L., López-Noriega, I., Madriz, B., Manners, R., Ortiz-Crespo, B., Quirós, C., de Sousa, K, Teeken, B., Tufan, H.A., Ulzen, J., & Valle-Soto, J. (2020). The tricot citizen science approach applied to on-farm variety evaluation: methodological progress and perspectives. Lima, Peru: CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB). RTB Working Paper. No. 2021-2.https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/111044

Jenna Hershberger,  Nicolas Morales,  Christiano C. Simoes,  Bryan Ellerbrock,  Guillaume Bauchet,  Lukas A. Mueller,  Michael A. Gore (2021) Making waves in Breedbase: An integrated spectral data storage and analysis pipeline for plant breeding programs. The Plant Phenome Journal, 4(1), n°e20012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.20012

Bowen, A.J., Blake, A., Turecek, J. (2019). Development and validation of a color evaluation process for sweet potato preference characterization.  Journal of sensory studies, 34 (5), n°12524. https://doi.org/10.1111/joss.12524  

Lado, J., Moltini, A.I., Vicente, E., Rodríguez, G., Arcia, P., Rodríguez, M., López, M., Billiris, A., Ares, G. (2019). Integration of Sensory Analysis into Plant Breeding: A Review. Agrociencia Uruguay, 23(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.31285/AGRO.23.1.16

Van Etten, J., Beza, E., Calderer, L., Van Duijvendijk, K., Fadda, C., Fantahun, B., Gebrehawaryat Kidane, Y., Van De Gevel, J., Gupta, A., Kassahun Mengistu, D., Kiambi, D., Narain Mathur, P., Mercado, L., Mittra, S., Mollel, M.J.,  Rosas, J. C., Steinke, J.,  Suchini J.G., Zimmerer, K. (2019). First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT). Experimental Agriculture, 55(S1), 275-296. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479716000739