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Kenya Agriculture - Nutrition | Science - Education Mutant wheat aiding Kenya food security afrol News / SciDev.Net, 30 May - A high-yielding, drought-resistant wheat variety is contributing to Kenya's food security and economic and social needs. The "mutant wheat" enables Kenyans to make use of have drylands that for long have been unfit for agriculture, at best merely a grazing area for wild animals and livestock.In collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kenya's Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) produced their first mutant strain of wheat, Njoro-BW1, in 2001. Researchers used "mutation plant breeding", a process that alters the traits and characteristics of crops using radiation to induce mutations. By staff writers © afrol News |
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