Articles tagged with: biosafety
Growing cassava in Denmark
Biotech in Nigeria
Banana menace
Is hybrid rice the answer?
CBSD: enemy number 1
Ensuring biosafety
Is genetically modified cowpea safe?
Training farmers using video
New genomic tools
Unraveling cassava’s problems
Designer (cowpea) plants
Biotechnology and nematodes
Christian Fatokun, who is in charge of biosafety at IITA, emphasizes the need for the community of scientists to work together harmoniously to solve problems of food security and poverty in Africa.
Christian Fatokun presents IITA’s guiding principles on the application of modern biotechnology on the improvement of mandate crops.
Plants can be designed to order, like clothes. This article briefly outlines the progress of a collaborative research effort on “designing” pest-resistant cowpeas.