Key message Consolidates relevant molecular and phenotypic information on cassava to
demonstrate relevance of heterosis, and alternatives to exploit it by integrating different …

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 …

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 …

Over the past 15 years, biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, has
gained ample recognition as a cost-effective, complementary, feasible means of delivering …

Cassava is an important crop in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Cassava
can be produced adequately in drought conditions making it the ideal food security crop in …

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 …

ABSTRACT Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a major tropical crop. Regarded as an
orphan crop a few decades ago, it now receives considerable attention from governments …

Biofortification breeding for three important micronutrients for human health, namely, iron
(Fe), zinc (Zn), and provitamin A (PVA), has gained momentum in recent years. HarvestPlus …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is one of the most important starchy root crops in the tropics
due to its adaptation to marginal environments. Genetic progress in this clonally propagated …

A platform for high-throughput production and analysis of transgenic cassava (Manihot
esculenta) has been developed for the variety 60444 and implemented to generate plants …