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Vol. 13, Issue 115 - Thursday, April 24, 2008
JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARBULLETIN.COM
A UH-led international team of 85 scientists has deciphered the
genetic code of a disease-resistant papaya. Posing with some
of the papayas used in research at Snyder Hall on the
University of Hawaii-Manoa campus are scientists Maqs Alam,
left, Qingyi Yu and Shaobin Hou; papaya farmer Ken Kamiya;
scientist Dennis Gonsalves; business development manager
Tak Sugimura; and Stephanie Whalen of the Hawaii Agriculture
Research Center.
Papaya genome decoded
UH scientists take part in the research, which is expected to benefit the
state's economy
By Helen Altonn
haltonn@starbulletin.com
University of Hawaii-Manoa researchers have decoded the genome of the genetically modified "SunUp"
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