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 …

Cassava is an important tropical root crop with versatile uses in food, feed, green energy
and industrial sectors. It is grown mostly for food in Sub-Saharan Africa, food and other uses …

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 …

This paper examines the impacts of climate change on cassava production in Africa, and
questions whether cassava can play an important role in climate change adaptation. First …

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

Cassava is an important crop in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Cassava
can be produced adequately in drought conditions making it the ideal food security crop in …

This review examines how intercrop productivity is determined, by analysing several key
physiological processes which affect yields of component crops. Availability of …

Cassava yields in Africa are small and it remains unclear which factors most limit yields.
Using a series of farm surveys and on-farm and on-station trials in Uganda and western …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is the fourth most important source of food energy in the
tropics. More than two-thirds of the total production of this crop is used as food for humans …

This book, consisting of 6 chapters, provides a concise introduction to the principles of crop
physiology in the tropics. It examines the ways in which physiological processes of tropical …