Genes from sweet pepper to fortify African banana against devastating wilt disease

Friday, August 6, 2010 - 11:28 in Biology & Nature

In a major breakthrough, crop scientists announced today the successful transfer of green pepper genes to bananas, conferring on the popular fruit the means to resist one of the most devastating diseases of bananas in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

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