While cassava isn’t a familiar name in the U.S. just yet, it’s well on its way. It has long flown under the radar in the form of tapioca, a cassava starch used in pudding and boba tea.

How viral disease outbreaks impact food supplies The cassava crop is one of the most important staple food crops in the developing world, especially in Africa. It provides the third-highest yield of ...

herbarium and archaeological cassava plants found the cassava genome to be extraordinarily diverse for a clonal crop. To understand how this genetic diversity arose, researchers looked to ...