Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda
Purpose
to understand the mechanism of reversion in sweetpotato from virus infected to healthy, which occurs at a high frequency in some cultivars of sweetpotato in East Africa, is a heritable characteristic and an opportunity to enable cheap and sustainable seed distribution schemes in subsistence farming systems
Division
Global Growth & Opportunity
Date
September 2014
Region Served
AFRICA
Committed amount
$499,567
Grant topic
Agricultural Development
Duration (months)
57
Grantee location
Kampala, Uganda
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