IITA to Intensify Fight Against Deadly Cassava Disease in sub-Saharan Africa - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), Tanzania, and the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Uganda, have received a US$2.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify and use molecular markers for faster and more accurate breeding of cassava varieties resistant to Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD).

To read the full press release, visit the IITA web site.