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Erostus Nsubuga, who sits on the Presidential Roundtable for Investments in Agriculture, and serves on several well-placed boards of state-enterprises in commerce and farming, juxtaposed the current Kenya-Uganda GM-crop technology scenario to the one in Latin America in 1990s.
Cassava is a staple for one in ten people on earth, grown mostly by small farmers tending a few acres. One of the challenges is insect-vectored virus Cassava Brown-Streak Virus that destroys the root.
Scientists from Africa and the Danforth Center in St. Louis MO, USA have collaborated to create a cassava line that is genetically engineered to suppress the virus.
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The approach is similar to what was done to save the papaya in Hawaii, essentially using a portion of the virus sequence to shut down viral infection.
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