"Stories and myths linked with crops are a strong part of Indigenous cultures." Scientists discover mind-blowing impact of ...

Cassava’s humble appearance, however, belies an impressive combination of productivity, toughness and diversity. Over the ...

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

In the article published in Science, analysis of the genomes of more than 500 modern, herbarium and archaeological cassava plants found the cassava genome to be extraordinarily diverse for a ...

Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on a six-foot-high plant. “Or too much sun.” ...

ONE of the staple foods of the people of the rain forest belt of West Africa is gari, a starchy food prepared from the root of the cassava plant (Manihot utilissima). The traditional preparation ...

And who discovered that popcorn could be a toasty, tasty treat? These kinds of food mysteries are pretty hard to solve. Archaeology depends on solid remains to figure out what happened in the past, ...

The rainforests of the Amazon contain dozens of useful plants that are used in everything from medicine to food, and industrial products like rubber. Some of these plants are listed below.