Morag works in accelerated plant breeding, virus indexing, rapid propagation, and seed systems for clonally propagated crops in East, South and Central Africa, as well as interacting globally. She particularly values working with NARES and has supervised over 30 MSc. and PhD. Students from the region. She conducted her PhD research at ICARDA, Syria, and joined ICRISAT in India for her post-doctoral studies, developing microsatellite markers for groundnut. She has worked on cassava since 2002 in Nairobi, publishing over 49 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including several on genetic diversity assessment, drought tolerance studies, molecular marker development, QTL detection, transcriptomics and recently identified candidate genes for disease resistance. She now focuses on getting new cassava technologies to farmers and works by supporting several NGOs, NARES and private sector partners.