More than 250 million Africans rely on the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta) as
their staple source of calories. A typical cassava-based diet, however, provides less than …

Abstract Peng Zhang (Corresponding author) As a major source of food, cassava (Manihot
esculenta Crantz) is an important root crop in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and Latin …

The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of cassava cultivars, in terms of
cyanogenic potential and composition of macro-and micronutrients, sampled from different …

Globally, cassava is the second most important root crop after potatoes and the fifth most
important crop overall in terms of human caloric intake. In addition to its growing global …

Approximately 925 million people are undernourished and almost 90% of these people live
in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Asia and the Pacific. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular …

Recent progress in cassava transformation has allowed the robust production of transgenic
cassava even under suboptimal plant tissue culture conditions. The transformation protocol …

Plants have been used to produce many diverse and valuable recombinant proteins,
including subunit vaccines, antibodies and antibody fragments, hormones, blood products …

Seed storage proteins (SSPs) have been studied for more than 250 years because of their
nutritional value and their impact on the use of grain in food processing. More recently, the …

Cassava is the major source of calories for more than 250 million Sub-Saharan Africans,
however, it has the lowest protein-to-energy ratio of any major staple food crop in the world …

Over two hundred and fifty million Africans rely on the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot
esculenta) as their primary source of calories. Cassava roots, however, have the lowest …