Dr. Christopher Cullis, a Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, presented “Marama Bean – An orphan legume with great potential” during this year’s PacBio PRISM 2025 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 14th-16th. He presented insights into his research on developing the marama bean (a wild legume) into a crop for resource poor farmers in Southern Africa.

You can learn more about the conference HERE.