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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The following persons and institutions are greatly appreciated for the support and
encouragement extended to me during this seventh academic struggle, in my 45 years of
life.
I am greatly indebted to Prof. Patrick L. J. Van Damme and Prof. Monica Höfte for your
guidance and numerous revisions of my draft thesis, encouragement, and above all for
finding me worthy of being promoted to a Doctor. I wish to extend my sincere gratitude
to members of the jury: Prof. dr. ir. Jacques Viaene, ir. Mia Defrancq, Prof. dr. Godelieve
Gheysen, Prof. dr. ir. Marie Christine Van Labeke, Prof.. dr. Claude Bragard, and Prof.
dr. ir. Patrick De Clercq for your support and guidance, and to my colleagues in the
laboratory, as well as the entire staff of the faculty BioScience Engineering, University of
Ghent, for your encouragement and assistance in many various ways of good living at
Ghent. Special thanks go to Sitske de Groote, who translated my summary to the Dutch
language.
My wife Evelyrn, daughters Caroline and Cathy Cissy, sons Emmanuel and Pascal, you
are greatly thanked for your tolerance, which was full of love, care and tranquility, and of
my long time friendship with the computer. My parents Basil Kintu and Bernadet
Nakachwa, for holding on to mother earth at last to see me in the category of Doctors,
and above all for investing your resources, prayers and blessings in me.
To the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), thank you for funding parts of my research
work. Mostly appreciated is Dr. Bernhard Lohr, Institute of Insect Physiology and
Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya.
The World Vegetable Centre (AVRDC), African Region Centre, Arusha, Tanzania,
especially Dr. Remi Nono-Womdim and Dr. Chadha M.L. for training me in virology and
allowing me to use your facilities during serological analysis of tomato virus disease leaf
samples.
Prof. Douglas P. Maxwell and Dr. Medhat Nakhla, Russell Laboratories, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA, for facilitating me during molecular analysis of tomato leaf
curl virus disease samples, and also for your practical training in molecular science
techniques.
Last but not least, I am grateful to all Ugandan colleagues, who supported and
encouraged me, especially Prof. Dr. Joseph Mukiibi, (Director General of the National
Agricultural Research Organisation, NARO), Prof. Dr. Micheal Lejeune (Vice
Chancellor, Uganda Martyrs University UMU), Prof. Dr. Peter Kanyandago (DVC
Academic Affairs, UMU), Dr. Samuel Kyamaywa, Dr. Magret Nabasirye, Mr. Julius
Mwine and my field assistants Alfred Otim and Florence Nagawa, as well as farmers who
allowed me to sample their fields and even offered land for my field experiments.
To the MOVER, I surrender and mine is always HIS to move
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