Cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz), a perennial shrub of the New World,
currently is the sixth world food crop for more than 500 million people in tropical and sub …

Petroleum-based food packaging materials are non-degradable and considerably affect the
environment. In this context, edible films and coatings for food preservation represent a …

Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion
people in developing countries. These species produce large quantities of dietary energy …

In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication,
adaptation and improvement of crop plants, bringing together genetic diversity, plant …

This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important
limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and …

The morphological and agronomic characteristics (ie roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and
seeds) of cassava are discussed, including growth and development (ie plant …

The species of plat parasitic nematodes infesting rice are presented (Ditylenchus angustus,
Aphelenchoides besseyi and Meloidogyne, Hirschmanniella, Heterodera, Pratylenchus …

The CGIAR crop improvement (CI) programs, unlike commercial CI programs, which are
mainly geared to profit though meeting farmers' needs, are charged with meeting multiple …

ABSTRACT Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a major tropical crop. Regarded as an
orphan crop a few decades ago, it now receives considerable attention from governments …

The relationship between disease and yield is most often summarized as a simple empirical
model that describes average crop performances is the presence of a pathogen. Such …