To improve food security, plant biology research aims to improve crop yield and tolerance to
biotic and abiotic stress, as well as increasing the nutrient contents of food. Conventional …

Virus diseases that have emerged in the past two decades limit the production of important
vegetable crops in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions worldwide, and many of the …

This work is inspired by Kaggle competition which was part of the Fine-Grained Visual
Categorization workshop at CVPR 2019 (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …

Viruses cause epidemics on all major cultures of agronomic importance, representing a
serious threat to global food security. As strict intracellular pathogens, they cannot be …

The rapid geographical expansion of the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) pandemic, caused
by cassava mosaic geminiviruses, has devastated cassava crops in 12 countries of East and …

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) has been practiced for several reasons, including
sociological, humanitarian, and egalitarian. This paper aims to demonstrate that PPB should …

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 …

Virus evolution is the change in the genetic structure of a viral population over time and
results in the emergence of new viral variants, strains, and species with novel biological …

Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural
impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions …

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) caused by cassava mosaic geminiviruses
(CMGs)(Geminiviridae: Begomovirus) is undoubtedly the most important constraint to the …