Laise Rosado-Souza, Ryo Yokoyama, Uwe Sonnewald, Alisdair R. Fernie Agriculture is facing a massive increase in demand per hectare as a result of an ever-expanding population and environmental deterioration. While we have learned much about how environmental conditions and diseases impact crop yield, until recently considerably less was known concerning...
Enyoing the lake side view – CASS project meeting in 2023
Picture from Tutzing, Germany in March 2023 During the annual CASS project meeting in March 2023, the CASS Phase 2 team met in Tutzing, Germany to discuss current project progress and to lay the foundation towards CASS Phase 3. Representatives from all project participants reported on their current research progress...
Gearing up for field trial planting in 2023
Cassava plants in the greenhouse in preparation for field planting; Picture taken in Taichung, Taiwan March 2023 Last season, we initiated a confined field trial comprising 1600 cassava plants, testing 16 different biotechnological concepts at once. The trial was accompanied with detailed phenotyping and harvested in December last year. The...