The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn ... It begins with grinding cassava’s starchy roots on shredding boards ...

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

I scampered over the 80 odd pages of the report. I thought to myself: surely the African farmers would have switched to cassava or other root crops during such a prolonged drought? So I scrambled to ...

In such areas, the bigger part of the stem cutting should be buried in the soil to encourage deep root formation. Cassava-spacing depends on the farming system adopted: such as mono-crop or intercrop.

Uncovering a cassava root, Juma splits it open with one swing of his hoe. He sighs—the creamy white flesh is streaked with brown, rotting starch. To save enough of the crop to sell and to feed ...

Similar patterns of cassava diversity were found across the different areas of the Amazon region and Caribbean; this is unusual as regional genetic variation is common in widespread crops.

Amani Wajane Women Group from Mande village in Vitengeni within Kilifi County display cassava roots after uprooting ... because it is a drought-resistant crop. The aim of the project is to help ...

Infected roots in cassava crops are often undetectable until a year after planting. The cassava mosaic and brown streak diseases are transmitted by the whitefly or propagate from one season’s crop to ...