Cassava (manioc, yuca, or mandioca; Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) is an important cash crop and food crop of resource-limited farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The storage roots are utilised either fresh, as in the case of sweet cultivars low in cyanogenic g...
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[Phenotyping cassava for adaptation to drought]
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Phenotyping cassava for adaptation to drought
In cassava, as for other major crops, molecular markers can reveal the genetic basis for both qualitative and quantitative phenotypic changes. This chapter examines the genetic diversity of cassava, the process of marker-assisted selection (MAS) and the application of genome sequencing to cassava...
The significance of cassava as a crop in tropical countries means that developing improved varieties is key to the sustainability of cassava production. This chapter examines how understanding the utilization of cassava can inform breeding objectives for developing improved varieties of cassava. ...
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Morante, Nelson
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[Developing new cassava varieties: tools, techniques and strategies]
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Developing new cassava varieties: tools, techniques and strategies
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The relationship between seedling quality and mother tree phenotype in Pterocarpus macrocarpus
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Facing the challenges of global agriculture today: what can we do about drought.
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Phenotyping for drought adaptation in wheat using physiological traits.
The genomics revolution has enabled rapid advances in genotyping capabilities and construction of high-density genetic linkage maps that enable new plant breeding strategies which have the potential to expedite delivery of improved crop varieties. These breeding strategies utilize molecular marke...
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Modern approaches for cowpea breeding