Unsweetpotato – Breeding staple-type sweetpotato for West Africa and beyond
An applied, collaborative sweetpotato breeding program and support platform for West Africa was established in Ghana at the CSIR-Crops Research Institute in 2010. Consumer demand for staple-type (low sugar) or Unsweetpotato was confirmed and laboratory methods to assist with election developed and...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145044 |
| Summary: | An applied, collaborative sweetpotato breeding program and support platform for West Africa was established in Ghana at the CSIR-Crops Research Institute in 2010. Consumer demand for staple-type (low sugar) or Unsweetpotato was confirmed and laboratory methods to assist with election developed and used in a new Quality Laboratory. Seed populations were made available for distribution to regional partners. |
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