A $1.3 Million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund the next phase of research that is critical to global food security.A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. The project is an important first step in accelerating the pace of research on this subsistence crop and addressing some of the many limitations that face cassava farmers around the world.
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