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 ...

Ojo's ambitions are straightforward -- increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500 percent, fight hunger and raise her ...

The prices of cassava will continue to rise as more firms compete to acquire the food item for ethanol production and other industrial uses. This imbalance is said to be driving prices of garri and ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, 2n = 36) is one of the most important root crops globally, particularly in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is a major source of food, ...

Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has said a proposed cassava-based ethanol plant will be a game changer that will catalyse growth in many sectors of the economy. He ...

East African Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP) plans to construct a cassava processing plant in Simba Chai area of Teso South sub-county. The facility which will cost Sh10 million is expected ...

While initially believed to enhance drought and oxidative stress tolerance, overexpression of MeFER4 in Arabidopsis led to increased sensitivity to multiple abiotic stresses, including drought, ...