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

Many a time, we had no quality seeds to plant and we used to exchange cuttings which worsened the situation," she adds. Cassava farmers have been planting seeds which were low yielding That meant ...

“Cassava is everything.” Most Tanzanians are subsistence farmers. In Africa small family farms grow more than 90 percent of all crops, and cassava is a staple for more than 250 million peopl ...

In the article published in Science, analysis of the genomes of more than 500 modern, herbarium and archaeological cassava plants found the cassava genome to be extraordinarily diverse for a ...

The fight against the impacts of climate change gains new momentum in Inhambane, where more than 35,000 farmers are receiving ...