The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Plant viruses cause significant losses in agricultural crops worldwide, affecting the yield and
quality of agricultural products. The emergence of novel viruses or variants through genetic …

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 …

Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a
major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or …

Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta. Crantz) is a starch‐rich, woody tuberous, root crop
important for food, with little being done to investigate its potential as a bioenergy crop …

Cassava is the world's most essential food root crop, generating calories to millions of Sub-
Saharan African subsistence farmers. Cassava leaves and roots contain toxic quantities of …

The ability to engineer natural proteins is pivotal to a future, pragmatic biology. CRISPR
proteins have revolutionized genome modification, yet the CRISPR-Cas9 scaffold is not …

Over the past three decades, highly increased whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) populations have
been observed on the staple food crop cassava in eastern Africa and associated with …

Abstract Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD), which is caused by cassava brown streak
virus (CBSV) and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV), represents one of the …

Emerging infectious plant diseases (EIPD) pose major challenges to global food systems.
We identified 14 EIPDs that can potentially inflict combined production losses worth over US …