CIAT cassava scientists have cut the breeding cycle time in half. Lead breeder Xiaofei Zhang explains how a combination of red light exposure, pruning, and growth hormone reduces the time to 7 months while increasing seed production up to 20x.
Huge implications for improving the 3rd biggest calorie provider in the global tropics and an essential pro-poor crop.
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Nest survival of threatened Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) breeding at low densities across a human‐modified landscape https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.13180?af=R #conservation #breedingbiology