Wilmer Cuellar
@WJCuellar
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Senior Scientist / Cassava Crop Protection Lead @BiovIntCIAT_eng virology | phytopathology | biotech | food security
Cali, Colombia
Joined September 2017
Disease Alert: The emergence of #cassava witches' broom #disease (#CWBD) in the Americas will require strong regional coordination to minimize its impact on food security and biodiversity. @USAID @ACIARAustralia.@Euphresco @BiovIntCIAT_eng @embrapa @Cirad.
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: ❓🌱 Did you know a single piece of cassava root can multiply infinitely? 🧬 Seed systems research makes this possible. 💡….
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 🤝 We signed an MoU with @CARDIcaribbean, opening new opportunities for cooperation in the Caribbean. Our goal: to join….
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RT @CellPressNews: Potato evolved from tomato 9 million years ago. @NHM_London Sandra Knapp.@UBC Loren H. Rieseber….
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RT @NCBI: If you use NCBI Datasets, this message is for you! Please update to the latest version of the command line tool to retrieve updat….
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 📢 The first cases of cassava witches' broom disease have been confirmed in French Guiana and Brazil. 🧑🔬 Together with….
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 📢🤝 On July 15–16, 2025, Bogotá will host the national workshop of the Power of Diversity Funding Facility project by t….
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RT @canale_cristina: I'd like to invite you to come to São Paulo (Brazil) for the 16th International Symposium of Plant Virus Epidemiology….
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RT @FrontEcolEvol: New Research: An emerging Platynota sp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) infesting blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in the cen….
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Blueberry cultivation has recently become a rapidly expanding export industry in Peru. With few to no official records of phytosanitary problems up to date. ...
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 🌾👩🔬We held a field trip to Lao PDR's National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute as part of Science Week in….
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 📢 Today, from Vientiane, Laos, we launch Science Week 2025! 🤝 Our annual event unites our scientists to share discover….
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RT @makeshctcri: International Symposium on Tropical root and tuber crops will be held during 17-21 November 2025 at Thiruvananthapuram, K….
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RT @Euphresco: 🚨Mark your calendars & join the next Xylella #seminar: 'Spread modelling to improve surveillance and management of Xylella f….
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RT @sethbannon: This isn't science fiction. This is real sequencing biotechnology just introduced by Roche. Wild and wonderful. https://t.c….
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RT @pAct_kame_GFP: Proteasomes accumulate in the plant apoplast where they participate in microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP)-trigg….
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Nature Communications - Extracellular proteasomes are found in the Arabidopsis apoplastic fluid and shown to participate in biotic defense by proteolytically digesting pathogen proteins into...
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_esp: 📢 ¡La Alianza BIOFILIA abrió sus puertas en Bio-Aprendiz! Uno de los recintos de esta maravillosa red de museos, confo….
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RT @alabamaED: CRAZY TOP of corn is caused by the fungus Sclerophthora macrospora. The pathogen causes excessive tillering & twisting of up….
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RT @fmartin1954: Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems | Nature
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Nature - This Review delves into the fungal kingdom, exploring the relationships among fungi, animals, plants and the environment, and investigating both the threats posed by fungi and their...
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RT @AgdiaInc: In new studies published in "Scientific Reports and New Disease Reports", Dr. Wilmer Cuellar and his team from Alliance of Bi….
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Across the tropics, farming communities—an estimated 800 million people—rely on cassava for food and income. However, in recent decades, harvests have been decimated by rapidly spreading diseases. ...
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RT @PlantoPhagy: Plant #autophagy is a rapidly moving field. We (@Ansa_Lina , expertly helped by @MargotRaffeiner, @SuayibUestuen & Y. @Yo….
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RT @SynBio1: Every synthetic biologist, every biochemist, when they dream, will sometimes hear a voice calling. A whisper on the wind, as i….
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Nature - A massively parallel assay developed to map the essential photosynthetic enzyme rubisco showed that non-trivial biochemical changes and improvements in CO2 affinity are possible,...
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