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Howard J Atkinson1, Hugh Roderick1, Leena Tripathi2
1Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Trends in Biotechnology
|July 22, 2015
Abstract:
Future food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) requires enhancement of its crop production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops.
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