In India cassava breeding is done mainly at the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) in Trivandrum, as well as in the State Agricultural Universities through the All India Co-ordinating Centres.
CTCRI maintains 786 exotic and 848 indigenous accessions of cassava and 8 wild species in it...
An analysis of the recent trend in cassava area, production and yield during 1993-96 revealed an impressive increase in Tamil Nadu, which is the predominant state where cassava is grown as an industrial crop. Its present yield of 29 t/ha is the highest in the world. Even though the overall nation...
Nair, S.G.
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Rajendran, P.G.
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Naskar, S.K.
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Sreekumari, M.T.
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Unnikrishnan, M.
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Sheela, M.N.
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[Breeding and varietal improvement of cassava in India]
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Breeding and varietal improvement of cassava in India
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) has been grown in India for more than a century. Although cassava breeding was initiated during the 1940s in Kerala, intensive research on breeding of superior varieties began only after the establishment of the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) in ...
Abraham, K.
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Nair, S.G.
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Naskar, S.K.
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[Cassava breeding and varietal dissemination in India: Major achievements during the past 25-30 years]
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Cassava breeding and varietal dissemination in India: Major achievements during the past 25-30 years
Many successful wide crosses among Asiatic cultivated Vigna species and between them and a wild species, V. trilobata, have been reported However, despite many attempts to cross the African cultivated Vigna species with wild Vigna species and the Asiatic cultivated Vigna species, there has been n...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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[Interspecific hybridization and selection techniques are developed to permit the introgression of useful genes into common bean]
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Interspecific hybridization and selection techniques are developed to permit the introgression of useful genes into common bean