… root quality traits. This would in turn guide strategic deployment of provitamin A cassava in
the … Keenly, this study focused on five root quality taits: total carotenoid content, starch yield, …

… Cassava biofortification programs have made significant progress in improving pro-vitamin
A … roots are considered an important source of carbohydrates (starch), but lack protein, fat, …

… stability and heritability for quality and yield characteristics in provitamin A cassava varieties
… paid on the basis of DMC or starch content; hence, improvement of these traits would greatly …

… strategies to combine both traits for increased adoption of provitamin A cassava varieties. …
Perhaps a simplistic explanation is that high DMC has lots of white starch which tends to dilute …

… in 46 cassava’s functional genomics, concentrating on important traits such as starch 47
quality … 1), which influences the synthesis of provitamin A 423 carotenoids in cassava’s storage …

… breeding to increase pro-vitamin A carotenoids in cassava roots… These improvements have
been successful through the … genotypes for nutritional quality, agronomic traits, yield traits, etc…

… Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a starchy crop … directed toward genetic improvement
of pVAC cassava for direct … Cassava improvement with pVAC and other traits is constrained …

… starch, ethanol or dried chips for animal feeding the key traits will be DMC and FRY. White
parenchyma is preferred by the starch industry, but the enhanced nutritional quality … cassava …

… and diseases, mealiness, starch content and the stability of these traits. Eight … improvement
programs. This study identified the best performing enhanced provitamin A varieties for traits …

… Several agronomic traits like yield and resistance to pests might also be different for yellow
… Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a starchy staple food that is consumed widely in …