date:May 26, 2014
esistant will not only reduce the use of pesticides in developing countries but also present the potential for yields in developing countries to be increased 10-fold, helping to address hunger and malnourishment in many impoverished nations.
Scott Jackson, director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, serves as chair of the International Peanut Genome Initiative.
The peanut crop is impor