{"id":11898,"date":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/swennen-rony\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","slug":"swennen-rony","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/swennen-rony\/","title":{"rendered":"Swennen, Rony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Rony Swennen a obtenu son doctorat \u00e0 la KU Leuven, en Belgique, en 1984. Apr\u00e8s un bref s\u00e9jour de recherche aux \u00eeles Canaries, en Espagne, il a rejoint l'IITA en 1979 en tant que premier scientifique de la sous-station \u00e0 forte pluviom\u00e9trie de l'IITA, \u00e0 Onne, au Nigeria. L\u00e0, il a d\u00e9but\u00e9 la recherche sur le plantain, ax\u00e9e initialement sur la physiologie \u00e0 l'appui de l'agronomie et de la taxonomie. Il a initi\u00e9 et dirig\u00e9 le programme de s\u00e9lection du plantain qui a abouti \u00e0 un plantain r\u00e9sistant \u00e0 la cercosporiose noire, gr\u00e2ce auquel l'IITA a re\u00e7u le Prix International Roi Baudouin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Il a collect\u00e9 des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s mondiales de bananes et de plantains qui ont jet\u00e9 les bases du Centre International de Transit de la banane, \u00e0 Louvain, en Belgique. En 1990, il est devenu ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rences \u00e0 la KU Leuven et, en 1997, professeur titulaire. Son Laboratoire d'Am\u00e9lioration des Cultures Tropicales abrite la collection mondiale de bananes, pour Bioversity International, avec des collaborations dans 103 pays. Des techniques de cryoconservation ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es pour la banane, puis pour 27 autres esp\u00e8ces v\u00e9g\u00e9tales. Son groupe a \u00e9galement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 les premi\u00e8res bananes transg\u00e9niques au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 90 avec des essais au champ dans deux endroits.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">En 1995, il est devenu membre de l'Acad\u00e9mie Royale de Belgique et Honorary Research Fellow de Bioversity International. Il a re\u00e7u plusieurs prix internationaux et un titre de chef au Nigeria. Depuis 2013, il dirige les programmes de s\u00e9lection du Musa (banane plantain, matooke, mchare) \u00e0 l'IITA. Un titre de chef nig\u00e9rian lui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cern\u00e9 en 1991 en hommage \u00e0 ses contributions dans le sud-est du Nigeria. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 \u201c Mugoya \u201d (membre du clan royal) en Ouganda en 2022.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rony Swennen obtained his PhD at KU Leuven, Belgium in 1984. 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