AFSTA POSITION PAPER ON PLANT BREEDING INNOVATIONS
Plant breeding is the art and science of the genetic improvement of plants, which includes cultivar development to create crops with new [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS IN BIOSCIENCES
National Dialogue on Genetically Modified Crops in Kenya When: 24 April, 2019 Where: Nairobi, Kenya What: The dialogue aims at giving various [...]
PUBLICATIONS – THE DRUM BEAT
IFPRI: Global Food Policy Report 2019 The 2019 Global Food Policy Report by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reviews the [...]
NEW RESEARCH IN BIOSCIENCES – AFRICA
Application of Genetic Engineering for Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease of Enset, Ethiopia’s Sustainability Crop Enset is one of the Ethiopia’s [...]
GMO Wars and Coffee: Is History Repeating Itself?
By Dr. Margaret Karembu A cloud of resistance hangs over the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Kenya. Varied views have [...]
NEW RESEARCH IN BIOSCIENCES – AFRICA
Stacking three late blight resistance genes from wild species directly into African highland potato varieties confers complete field resistance [...]
PUBLICATIONS – THE DRUM BEAT
The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture Biodiversity, which is vital for food and agriculture, is disappearing by [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS IN BIOSCIENCES
Biosafety Symposium 2019 When: 14 March, 2019 Where: Pretoria, South Africa What: The Symposium offers a unique opportunity to engage with the [...]
Malawi’s Bt Cotton Research Experience provides African Agri-Biotech Researchers with [...]
Malawi is inching closer to commercializing Bt cotton as research into the genetically modified crop is at an advanced stage. The Department of [...]