q) Professor Sir David Baulcombe, FRS (Head, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)
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| Description: | Engineering resistance to maize lethal necrosis: an emerging threat to food security in Africa |
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| Created: | 2014-11-13 16:59 | ||||||
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| Collection: | Cambridge-Africa Day 2014 | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
| Copyright: | Cambridge-Africa Programme | ||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Africa; GM; Food Security; Maize; Crops; | ||||||
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| Abstract: | Pests and diseases are some of the biggest constraints to crop productivity in Africa. I will describe how genetic modification (GM) could provide sustainable and equitable solutions to these problem using maize lethal necrosis disease and other examples. |
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