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Major heretofore intractable biotic constraints to African food security that may be amenable to novel biotechnological solutions

2004-08-01

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The input costs of pesticides to control biotic constraints are often prohibitive to the subsistence farmers of Africa and seed based solutions to biotic stresses are more appropriate. Plant breeding has been highly successful in dealing with many pest problems in Africa, especially diseases, but is limited to the genes available within the crop genome. Years of breeding and studying cultural practices have not al...

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Literature Corpus work: 6a1ad984-fbce-5bd7-9060-ce116eb12bd3
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2003.11.014

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