Millions living in marginal, difficult areas of Africa’s Sahel depend upon millet and sorghum as their staple diet and as feed and fodder for their livestock.
To help develop new ways of protecting these 'orphan crops' against disease, pests and abiotic stress, and in improving their nutritional quality the Foundation sponsored two workshops, one at the University of Arizona-Tucson, the other at Biosciences for east Central Africa "BecA" in Nairobi, bringing together geneticists, bioinformatic specialists and plant breeders from both private and public sectors, to identify how knowledge of the cereal genomes can be used to improve millet and sorghum.
Source: Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
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