Cassava is already one of the most important food crops in Africa, and probably the most important smallholder industrial crop in SE Asia. But a new project announced by CIAT and BGI to sequence no fewer than 5,000 cassava genotypes could unlock some of the crop’s as-yet undiscovered secrets, helping agricultural scientists find new cassava markets, and rise toRead More …
Cassava’s new dawn: 5,000 genotypes to be sequenced
16 December, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Cassava @en, Crops @en