Cacao is an important food crop used widely around the world by 50 million people. However this wonderful plan that allow to make our sweet dreams possible, like chocolate, suffer a numerous of plant diseases. The Innovative Genomic Institute (IGI) an academic research partnership between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco aims to develop DNA … Read more
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