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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Cassava is an important starchy root crop grown globally in tropical and subtropical regions. The ability of cassava to withstand difficult growing conditions and long-term storability underground makes it a resilient crop, contributing to food security.
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Technological Innovations for Improving Cassava Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Cassava is crucial for food security of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The crop has great potential to contribute to African development and is increasing its income-earning potential for small-scale farmers and related value chains on the ...
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Cassava mosaic disease and its management in Southeast Asia
Plant Molecular Biology, 2021 Status of the current outbreak of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) in Southeast Asia was reviewed. Healthy cassava seed production and dissemination systems have been established in Vietnam and Cambodia, along with integrated disease and pest management ...
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A cassava common mosaic virus vector for virus-induced gene silencing in cassava
Plant Methods, 2021 Cassava is an important crop for food security and industry in the least-developed and developing countries. The completion of the cassava genome sequence and identification of large numbers of candidate genes by next-generation sequencing provide ...
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Cassava breeding and agronomy in Asia: 50 years of history and future directions
Breeding Science, 2020 In Asia, cassava (Manihot esculenta) is cultivated by more than 8 million farmers, driving the rural economy of many countries. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in partnership with national agricultural research institutes (NARIs)
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BMC Biotechnology, 2020 Background Intercropping, an essential cultivation pattern in modern agricultural systems, increases crop yields and soil quality. Cassava and peanut intercropping systems exhibit advantages in solar utilization and cadmium absorption, etc.
Xiumei Tang +11 more
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2018 Summary Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is a major constraint on cassava yields in East and Central Africa and threatens production in West Africa. CBSD is caused by two species of positive‐sense RNA viruses belonging to the family Potyviridae, genus
Michael A. Gomez +10 more
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Physiological and Biochemical Responses of four cassava cultivars to drought stress
Scientific Reports, 2020 The antioxidant mechanism is crucial for resisting oxidative damage induced by drought stress in plants. Different antioxidant mechanisms may contribute to the tolerance of cassava to drought stress, but for a specific genotype, the response is still ...
Yanmei Zhu +4 more
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Linking CRISPR-Cas9 interference in cassava to the evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses
Genome Biology, 2019 Geminiviruses cause damaging diseases in several important crop species. However, limited progress has been made in developing crop varieties resistant to these highly diverse DNA viruses.
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Nature Biotechnology, 2016 Cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides calories and nutrition for more than half a billion people. It was domesticated by native Amazonian peoples through cultivation of the wild progenitor M. esculenta ssp.
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