The Underrepresentation of African Plant Genomics in Global Databases Is Not a Data Problem — It Is a Funding Problem

Audit of African crop accessions and reference genomes in NCBI, Ensembl Plants, and Phytozome relative to research needs. The shortfall is structural and follows the funding map, not the science map.

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