The importance of such research is linked to her understanding that the genetic basis of drought tolerance may impact on food and job security in Africa.
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Meet South Africas’s scientist, currently working to identifying and developing genetic markers for drought tolerance and yield in crop. Malebe is a PhD candidate in Biotechnology at the University of Pretoria, a recipient of the Department of Science and Technology Women in Science Doctoral Fellowship in 2013, and currently has a Southern African Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products Network PhD Fellowship. Read more