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Everyone fails, even experts - Rose Harriet

Rose Harriet

Everyone fails, even experts

She had been successfully weaning cassava plantlets from lab to field for so long that it had now become 2nd nature. Then, one day, they wilted and died. Thus started a dying spree…

Mary Mwangi | Introducing improved cooking banana hybrids to Kenya

Mary Mwangi

Introducing improved cooking banana hybrids to Kenya

The hybrids are the result of over 20 years of joint conventional breeding efforts between the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO)-Uganda; and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) hence the name NARITAs.

John Odipio | Traversing 3 continents to prove gene editing in cassava breeding

John Odipio

Traversing 3 continents to prove gene editing in cassava breeding