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Danielle Ama Essandoh in the Peanut Wild Species Lab at the University of Georgia counts pollen from the offspring of wild and cultivated groundnut crosses. Infertility of progeny from crosses between wild and cultivated groundnut is one of the major bottlenecks when introducing greater genetic diversity from the wild species. Part of Essandoh’s work is overcoming these bottlenecks.
Before climate change threatened food security, Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution, put shuttle breeding to work. A Pan...
Women often perform more than one task at a time, such as sorting peanuts and caring for children, according to qualitative research done with families in the Kaolack region of Senegal.
A woman’s work is never done, according to a paper that explores whether women have enough time to rest, explore entrepreneurial activities...
Esther Archola, PhD student at Makerere University in Uganda, is lead author on a recently published paper on using advanced genomics for mapping disease resistance in groundnuts1. In 2022, Ms. Achola won the prestigious Joe Sugg Award at the American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting for her work on peanut disease. Achola was the first international student to win the award, as well as the first to win while presenting virtually.
As an enigmatic plant disease threatens one of the most important legume crops in Africa, a Pan Africa network of plant breeders collected...