Sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas Lam.) has high potential to contain hunger, malnutrition and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), since it gives early yield with few inputs. However, productivity of the crop in Africa is very low due to various challenges, such as severe viral diseases and increasing attacks by sweetpotato weevils, Cylas puncticollis and C. brunneus . Effective resistance to weevils has not been identified in the sweetpotato gene pool. On the other hand, the weevil-resistance genes, cry7Aa1 and cry3Ca1 were assembled into a plasmid vector for use in genetic transformation of African sweetpotato cultivars. The parameters for efficient transfer of these genes and the conditions for de novo regeneration optimised in preliminar...
Despite efforts to demonstrate the value of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) ( Ipomoea batatas L....
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) has high potential to contain hunger, malnutrition and poverty in...
Soybean ( Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is among the major food and industrial crops grown globally for ...
Induction of adventitious buds and shoots from intact leaves and stem internode segments of two reca...
Drought stress is a constraint to sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam)) production in many parts...
Sweetpotato weevil ( Cylas puncticollis ) Boheman is a serious pest throughout Sub-Saharan Africa r...
Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz ) is a major food crop in developing countries, and holds potent...
Storage root dry matter content (RDM) is central to the improvement of consumer and industrial attri...
Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) is the most important disease of sweetpotato in the tropics. It ca...
Rice bacterial blight ( Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae ) is a major constraint to rice ( Oryza sativ...
Cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is a legume attacked by several field insect pests, with fl...
Late leaf spot (LLS), Phaeoisariopsis personata (Berk. and Curtis) Deighton, is one of the most im...
Bambara groundnut [ Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc. Fabaceae] is an indigenous African crop grown acro...
Common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) has evolved rapidly in Africa and is steadily transforming fr...
Sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas Lam) is a staple food globally, but it has remained underutilised reso...
Despite efforts to demonstrate the value of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) ( Ipomoea batatas L....
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) has high potential to contain hunger, malnutrition and poverty in...
Soybean ( Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is among the major food and industrial crops grown globally for ...
Induction of adventitious buds and shoots from intact leaves and stem internode segments of two reca...
Drought stress is a constraint to sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam)) production in many parts...
Sweetpotato weevil ( Cylas puncticollis ) Boheman is a serious pest throughout Sub-Saharan Africa r...
Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz ) is a major food crop in developing countries, and holds potent...
Storage root dry matter content (RDM) is central to the improvement of consumer and industrial attri...
Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) is the most important disease of sweetpotato in the tropics. It ca...
Rice bacterial blight ( Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae ) is a major constraint to rice ( Oryza sativ...
Cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is a legume attacked by several field insect pests, with fl...
Late leaf spot (LLS), Phaeoisariopsis personata (Berk. and Curtis) Deighton, is one of the most im...
Bambara groundnut [ Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc. Fabaceae] is an indigenous African crop grown acro...
Common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) has evolved rapidly in Africa and is steadily transforming fr...
Sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas Lam) is a staple food globally, but it has remained underutilised reso...
Despite efforts to demonstrate the value of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) ( Ipomoea batatas L....
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) has high potential to contain hunger, malnutrition and poverty in...
Soybean ( Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is among the major food and industrial crops grown globally for ...