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

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.” ...

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

Since this was from their main food store, I would take, in a miserly manner, only one tuber from a cassava plant, which would have to last me the whole day, leaving the rest for my Vedda host family.

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 ...

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 ...