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Gladness Elibariki Temu was raised on a farm in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region, where her parents cultivated maize, banana, bean, and coffee. At that time, cassava was a minor crop, grown primarily on the edges of fields to demark boundaries. Today, it is a major staple in Temu’s country, and has become a central focus of her research career.
Cassava is grown by resource-poor women,who depend on it to feed their families and generate income through sales in local markets.With genetic technology,I hope we can go further to deliver for farmers who are waiting for results.
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Fellows Stories
AWARD Fellow Successfully Completes PhD in Biotechnology
Date: April 8, 2016
Gladness Elibariki Temu, Assistant Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) recently defended her PhD thesis successfully and was conferred her degree on November 8, 2014. Temu’s PhD thesis is titled “Regeneration, Diversity and RNA Interference Strategies to Enhance Cassava Mosaic Viruses Resistance in Tanzanian Cassava Landraces” and was carried out, also at UDSM.