Insufficient supply, high prices and competition with the human food and biofuel industries
means there is a continuous demand for alternative energy sources for poultry. As a result …

Highlights•Cassava leaves are a rich source of protein, minerals, and vitamins.•Antinutrients
and cyanogens in cassava leaves restricts their use as human food.•Consumption of …

Laticifers are specialized cells that occur in over 20 plant families in several unrelated
angiosperm orders. Although laticifers are likely to be of polyphyletic origin, their occurrence …

Abstract Transgenic cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, cv MCol22) plants with a 92%
reduction in cyanogenic glucoside content in tubers and acyanogenic (< 1% of wild type) …

The variation of proximate compositions, amino acids, carotenoids, chlorophyll, and total
cyanide contents in cassava leaves was studied to identify the most suitable leaves for …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and yam (Dioscorea spp.) are tropical crops consumed
by ca. 2 billion people and represent the main source of carbohydrate and energy for the …

The plant kingdom has elaborated several conducting systems. Three are primarily for mass
transport: the aerenchyma (for gas exchange in submerged parts), the phloem (for exchange …

Bitterness in almond (Prunus dulcis) is determined by the content of the cyanogenic
diglucoside amygdalin. The ability to synthesize and degrade prunasin and amygdalin in the …

The short storage life of harvested cassava roots is an important constraint that limits the full
potential of cassava as a commercial food crop in developing countries. We investigated the …

A versatile naphthalene-benzothiazole-based chemoreceptor (BTN) towards selective
recognition of Zn 2+ and Cd 2+ is reported in this work. BTN exhibits chromogenic changes …