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Future for cassava?
4:39 CAT | 18 Sep 2017
BBC
A new portable machine could detect viruses in cassava crops within 20 minutes, researchers have told the BBC.
Cassava crops are being decimated by the white fly – but a portable DNA sequencer, which identifies and tracks the disease, could be the solution they say.
“Previously, detecting viruses involved sending samples abroad, so it would take maybe three months to get results,” says Dr Joseph Ndunguru of the Cassava Whitefly Project.
Around 800 million people worldwide rely on cassava root as their main source of carbohydrate, more than 200 million of whom are in Africa.
Source: BBC
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