Farewell to the jungle!
Harvesting over thousand cassava plants in Taiwan in 2019! The Cassava Source-Sink projects main goal is to boost cassava yield by stimulating assimilation, allocation and …
Drone phenotyping reveals differences in cassava growth
All crop improvement activities ultimately depend on good phenotyping. With the qualitative and quantitative description of plant growth and development, crop researchers are able to …
Cassava Metabolomics and Starch Quality
Cassava Metabolomics and Starch Quality Laise Rosado‐Souza, Laure C. David, Margit Drapal, Paul D. Fraser, Jörg Hofmann, Patrick A. W. Klemens, Frank Ludewig, H. …
Metabolic profiles of six African cultivars of cassava
Metabolic profiles of six African cultivars of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) highlight bottlenecks of root yield Toshihiro Obata, Patrick A.W. Klemens, Laise Rosado‐Souza, Armin Schlereth, …
Working together to improve cassava
The starchy, tuberous root of cassava is hugely important as a food crop for millions of people worldwide. Both, the „NextGen Cassava“ (NextGen) and „Cassava …
Metabolite profiles
Metabolite profiles reveal interspecific variation in operation of the Calvin- Benson cycle in both C4 and C3 plants. Arrivault S, Alexandre Moraes T, Obata T, …
Next-generation strategies
Next-generation strategies for understanding and influencing source-sink relations in crop plants. Sonnewald U, Fernie AR (2018) Whether plants are source or sink limited, that is, …
Symplasmic phloem unloading
Symplasmic phloem unloading and radial post-phloem transport via vascular rays in tuberous roots of Manihot esculenta. Mehdi R, Lamm CE, Ravi Bodampalli A, Müdsam …