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Healthy Africa through nutritious, diverse and local food crops

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African Orphan Crops Consortium

Healthy Africa through nutritious, diverse and local food crops

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Pistacia vera

September 27, 2016March 24, 2025
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Common Name:Pistachio

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With the endorsement of the African Union, the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) has the greater integration of orphan crops into African food systems at its heart. To support this, its goal is to sequence, assemble and annotate the genomes of 101 traditional African food crops, to facilitate their genetic improvement… Read more

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