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South Africa: Gene Discovery Could Fight Cassava Disease, Increase Food Security

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Gene Discovery Could Fight Cassava Disease, Increase Food Security: SouthAfrica

is constrained by weeds and viral diseases, particularly the cassava mosaic disease, caused by a group of viruses called geminiviruses.of cassava crops, a staple for over 800 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

"Understanding the genetic resources for resistance to geminiviruses is therefore important to secure yields for cassava farmers," says Wilhelm Gruissem, one of the researchers that made the discoveryGruissem, professor of plant biotechnology at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, tells SciDev.Net that the cassava mosaic disease in Africa causes significant yield losses in Sub-Saharan Africa and is spreading to India and other parts or South East Asia.

 

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