The Cereal Annotation & Improvement Workshops

These workshops were featured in an CNBC television special "The Business of Development" broadcast in NAFTA and in Europe September 2005.

To help develop new ways of protecting these 'orphan crops' against disease, pests and abiotic stress, and in improving their nutritional quality the Foundation sponsored two workshops, one at the University of Arizona-Tucson, the other at Biosciences for east Central Africa "BecA" in Nairobi, bringing together geneticists, bioinformatic specialists and plant breeders from both private and public sectors, to identify how knowledge of the cereal genomes can be used to improve millet and sorghum.

2005: Nairobi, Kenya -     African Sorghum & Millet Annotation and
                                         Improvement Consortium Report

2004: Tucson, Arizona -   Annotation Workshop for Sorghum and Millet
                                         in Africa Report [PDF 64KB]

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