Potatoes ruined by late blight disease (left) are compared to healthy potatoes.
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Akhter Hossain of Bangladesh compares healthy potatoes (right) to potatoes infected with late blight fungus.
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Conventional cowpea is offered for sale in a Nigerian market. The genetically engineered variety is still under development.
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Close up of potato infected by late blight fungus.
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A trader prepares to package conventional cowpea for a customer in a Nigerian market. An insect resistant variety is now under development.
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Maturing cabbage plants in Geneva, NY, are ready for the release of genetically engineered sterile diamondback moths in a 2017 field trial.
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Leaf wilting is a symptom of infection by the cassava mosaic virus, as displayed in this crop in Tanzania.
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A cowpea trader waits for customers at a market in Nigeria, which is conducted field trials on a genetically engineered, insect resistant variety.
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A trader bags conventional cowpea for a customer to buy at a Nigerian market. The insect-resistant cowpea variety is under development.
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Though tiny, diamond back moths wreak considerable farm damage, prompting efforts to use biotechnology, instead of insecticides, to control this pest.
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These cages contain genetically engineered sterile diamondback moths that are part of a contained field trial in Geneva, NY.
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A field of cabbage planted in Geneva, NY, in preparation for Cornell University's 2017 field trials of the genetically engineered sterile diamondback moth.
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Entomologist Dr. Anthony Shelton releases genetically engineered sterile diamondback moths into cages for a contained field trial in Geneva, NY.
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Cornell University entomologist Dr. Anthony Shelton releases genetically engineered sterile diamondback male moths into cages for a contained trial in Geneva, NY.
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Dr. Charles Mugoya (right), chairman of Uganda's National Biotechnology Council, and Dr. Eric Magembe, a molecular biologist at the Crop Improvement Project, observe a late 2017 confined field trial for late blight disease resistant potatoes.
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An ear of drought tolerant maize thrives in Tanzania's first confined field trial of a genetically engineered crop, which used the WEMA seeds.
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After losing two maize crops to drought, Said Salum Njukwage, a farmer in the Bagamoyo region of Tanzania, is looking forward to growing WEMA maize.
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A Tanzanian farmer displays cassava infected with the black streak disease. Scientists are developing a genetically engineered variety resistant to the disease.
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Local farmers participate in planting late blight resistant potatoes at a confined field trial at Rwebitaba in Fortportal, Uganda.
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Ezekiel Odonkor and Sulaiman Usman Tsauri, 2016 Global Leadership Fellows, learn about rice breeding at the Cornell Plant Transformation Lab. Credit: Alliance for Science

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