Kasetsart 50 is a progeny that would make any parent proud. KU 50, as it’s called, is a high-yielding cassava ...
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Roots, tubers and bananas are the foundation of food security for millions of people across Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
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As One CGIAR takes shape it becomes critical to build on the progress already made. Participants in the virtual Golden ...
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During May 2021, the importance of root, tuber and banana crops was highlighted by Agrilinks, an online hub where agriculture, ...
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A new online process that enabled the Initiative Design Team (IDT) with a large group of genebank managers collaboratively to ...
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Ask any child who is well versed in Aesop’s fables and you will learn that golden eggs can be a ...
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New crop varieties can help farmers thrive in difficult agricultural conditions, feed families and create livelihoods when sold or processed ...
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Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice that people often take for ...
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A review of Phase 2 (2017–2019) of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has concluded that ...
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“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do not occur solely in humans ...
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Plant breeders are generally looking for heterosis, where the offspring of a cross performs significantly better on some measure than ...
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Plants produce thousands of smallish chemical compounds known as metabolites. Like a DNA fingerprint, which offers a portrait of a ...
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