Genes from sweet pepper arm banana against deadly wilt disease

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 10:28 in Biology & Nature

In a major breakthrough, crop scientists have successfully transferred genes from green pepper to bananas that enable the crop to resist the Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), one of the most devastating disease of banana in the Great Lakes region of Africa. The researchers are now about to start confined field trials in Uganda.

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