With the start of CASS Phase III, the FAU team is expanding to be able to deliver on our ambitious goals of improving cassava yield for smallholder farmers. Dr. Maryam Nasr Esfahani, Dr. Qingting Liu, and Dr. Yawen Shen join the team at FAU Erlangen as postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Mercedes...
Symplasmic phloem loading and subcellular transport in storage roots are key factors for carbon allocation in cassava
David Rüscher, Viktoriya V Vasina, Jan Knoblauch, Leo Bellin, Benjamin Pommerrenig, Saleh Alseekh, Alisdair R Fernie, H Ekkehard Neuhaus, Michael Knoblauch, Uwe Sonnewald, Wolfgang Zierer Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a deciduous woody perennial shrub that stores large amounts of carbon and water in its storage roots. Previous studies have shown that assimilate unloading into storage roots happens symplasmically once secondary...