We don't talk about Bruno: How a pushcart is changing crop breeding
At the Alliance, researchers are using a low-cost smartphone pushcart called Bruno to collect faster, more consistent crop data, helping breeding programmes across Africa improve how they identify crop varieties.
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We don't talk about Bruno: How a pushcart is changing crop breeding
At the Alliance, researchers are using a low-cost smartphone pushcart called Bruno to collect faster, more consistent crop data, helping breeding programmes across Africa improve how they identify crop varieties.
…but that's because, for the past four years, the field results have been speaking for themselves
It has no engine, no satellite dish, no blinking sensors promising the future of agriculture. What is has is character and built-for-purpose. Bruno is a steel pushcart fitted with a smartphone, designed to be pushed by hand across crop fields. Yet it is helping solve one of crop breeding's least visible constraints: collecting reliable field data breeders need to decide which plants become tomorrow's crop varieties.