Claude M FauquetDr. Fauquet is an international leader in plant virology including taxonomy, epidemiology, molecular virology, and in gene-silencing as an antiviral strategy. He co-founded the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) in 2002, which heis now directing and whose goal is to improve cassava worldwide Dr Fauquet has published more than 300 research papers in reviewed journals and books. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Phytopathological Society and a member of the St Louis Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Dr. Fauquet was knighted Chevalier de lâ Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Minister of High Education and Research. Read More Read Less