Healthy Crops team developed resistant rice varieties
© IRD/ Mathilde Hutin
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© IRD / Mathilde Hutin
An international research team, the “Healthy Crops” consortium, has developed three new rice varieties that will now be transferred to plant breeders and researchers working locally in Madagascar and Tanzania for field testing. If they prove beneficial these varieties could be released in the national registration processes and could be made available to farmers.
CEPLAS group leader Eliza Loo and former CEPLAS postdoc Yugander Arra are also part of the international research team.