Weevil resistant sweetpotato through biotechnology

Sweetpotato weevils are responsible for significant losses of up to a third of the annual production in some sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, threatening their food security. Biotechnology has been applied to introduce synthetic genes that produce proteins with activity against the weevils. A fi...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	International Potato Center
Format:	Brief
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2012
Subjects:	sweet potatoes biotechnology
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145010