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Outside view of the center
 The late Senator Daniel K. Inouye during the ground breaking for the center
 Aerial view of rainbow papaya, a GMO resistant to the papaya ring spot virus (PRV). APSNET Features story by C. Gonsalves, D. Lee and D. Gonsalves, “Transgenic Virus-Resistant Papaya: The Hawaiian ‘Rainbow’ was Rapidly Adopted by Farmers and is of Major Importance in Hawaii Today” (doi:10.1094/APSnetFeature-2004-0804)
 Mid 20th century photo of the USDA fruit fly investigations lab personnel. USDA has conducted research on tephritid fruit flies in Hawaii since at least the 1910. DKI-PBARC is the direct descendant of those efforts.


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Research Units at DKI-US-PBARC  Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit (TCCPRU)Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research Unit (TPGRDRU) Tropical Pest Genetics and Molecular Biology Research (TPGMBR)


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