Though cassava is easy to cultivate, it is particularly vulnerable to plant pathogens, which can significantly reduce crop yields. These images complement a paper including UC Berkeley and DOE JGI ...

Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop. But there’s a problem: Cassava is highly poisonous . How can cassava be so toxic, yet still dominate diets in Amazonia?

Cassava Frog Skin Disease (CFSD), responsible for significant crop losses across the Americas, is a viral disease associated with previously unidentified torradovirus infections. Cassava Witches ...

Develop and disseminate pest management technologies and systems for producing healthy seedlings In recent years, climate change and the rapid acceleration of global trade have led to increasing crop ...

Global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and outpaced world population growth between 1961 and 2022 ...

Cassava is an important food and cash crop for small-holder farmers in Africa. It is the second most important staple food crop after maize in sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately one-third of the ...