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A springboard to success

Can Brazil build on its achievement of completing the first genome sequence of a plant pathogen? That may depend on its willingness to reform its universities, say Colin Macilwain and Ricardo Bonalume Neto.

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Macilwain, C., Bonalume Neto, R. A springboard to success. Nature 407, 440–441 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35035207

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