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...
CASS Phase 3 kick-off meeting
Picture from Zurich, Switzerland in April 2024 It´s official! The CASS project continues in its third funding phase. With support from Gates Agricultural Innovations, we continue in our mission to improve cassava yield for smallholder farmers. FAU and all its Phase 2 partners have commited themselves for another 5 years...
Efficient sugar utilization and transition from oxidative to substrate-level phosphorylation in high starch storage roots of African cassava genotypes
Christian E Lamm, Ismail Y Rabbi, David Barbosa Medeiros, Laise Rosado-Souza, Benjamin Pommerrenig, Ismail Dahmani, David Rüscher, Jörg Hofmann, Anna M van Doorn, Armin Schlereth, H Ekkehard Neuhaus, Alisdair R Fernie, Uwe Sonnewald, Wolfgang Zierer Cassava's storage roots represent one of the most important sources of nutritional carbohydrates worldwide. Particularly, smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa depend on this crop plant, where resilient and...