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Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives
Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) and NC State Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato (GT4SP) are part of an exciting venture that is working to...
Sweetpotato Workshop at PAG Meeting
International Plant & Animal Genome XXVII (PAG) January 12-16, 2019 – San Diego, CA, USA PAG is the largest Ag-genomics Meeting in the world and brings...
Helping Hidden Hunger: Student Researcher Bonny Oloka
When Bonny Oloka visited his grandparents in their rural Ugandan village, he was often served sweet potatoes – and only sweet potatoes – for three...
Welcome to PAG XXVII
The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) will be January 12-16 2019. It is designed to provide a forum on recent developments and future...New tools to harvest better Sweetpotatoes
In a traditional African setting, we say that time waits for no man and doesn’t spare the women either.At exactly 5:30 a.m. in East Africa,...Transcriptomic analysis of sweetpotato under dehydration stress identifies candidate genes for drought tolerance
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam.) is an important subsistence crop in Sub‐ Saharan Africa, yet as for many crops, yield can be severely impacted...
Sweetpotato Weevils
Cylas formicarius, the sweet potato weevil, is a species of sweet potato weevil in the family of beetles known as Brentidae.It is found in Africa,...