The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...

Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates. The atmosphere's carbon dioxide levels are rapidly increasing, but there is ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --Cassava, a root crop that feeds more than 1 billion people around the world, could benefit from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. In a new study, published recently in the Journal of ...

A joint study by researchers at the Koforidua Technical University and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology ...

For nearly a billion people around the world, cassava is a staple crop and a primary source of calories. The plant is easy to cultivate -- cuttings grow well on marginal land--and it is very tolerant ...

As smallholder farmers in French Guiana walked their fields in 2023, they noted a disturbing pattern. Their healthy cassava plants, once green and thriving, had begun to turn yellow. Leaves wilted, ...

Cassava is a staple food for millions of people across Africa and a major source of income and employment for farmers. There are efforts to create an effective cassava entrepreneurship system to boost ...

Cassava farming is increasingly taking root in Kilifi county with acreage under the crop increasing each year. This is after the Kilifi county government completed the construction of a Sh25 million ...

Cassava variety in a Confined Field Trail at the Kenya Agricultural Livestock and Research Organization (Kalro). [Ignatius Odanga, Standard] Researchers at Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research ...

New research has identified a genetic mutation that confers resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, ...