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Gates Foundation grant
3:48 pm
Thu April 14, 2011

Danforth Center gets grant for African nutrition

Credit (via Flickr/Intenational Center for Tropical Agriculture)
A cassava root. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has received $8.3 million fron the Gates Foundation to research ways to increase nutrition in the root, which is the main carbohydrate for a quarter of a billion people.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur $8.3 million to increase the nutritional value of a staple crop in Africa.

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