National Agricultural Research Organisation Grant



Organization - National Agricultural Research Organisation
Grant Amount - $387,560
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of a project, in collaboration with the Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, to increase banana productivity through genetic transformation to improve the architecture and development time of the East African Highland Banana


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