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 …
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One more step towards cassava yield improvement
The Cassava Source-Sink consortium was able to hold its first in persona meeting in Bonn Bad-Godesberg since the start of the pandemic. International experts in …
CASS launches fourth confined cassava field trial
The Cassava Source Sink project has successfully planted its fourth cassava field trial in Taichung, Taiwan in March 2022, despite the difficult global situation. In …
Auxin signaling and vascular cambium formation enables storage metabolism
Auxin signaling and vascular cambium formation enable storage metabolism in cassava tuberous roots David Rüscher, José María Corral, Anna Vittoria Carluccio, Patrick A W …
Tuber and Tuberous Root Development
Tuber and Tuberous Root Development Wolfgang Zierer, David Rüscher, Uwe Sonnewald, Sophia Sonnewald (2021) Root and tuber crops have been an important part …
The Cassava Source-Sink project
The Cassava Source-Sink project: Opportunities and challenges for crop improvement by metabolic engineering Sonnewald U, Fernie AR, Gruissem W, Schläpfer P, Anjanappa RB, Chang …
Interview with Dr. Christian Lamm
Which project are you working on at the moment? I am working on stable cassava transformation at the FAU Erlangen since the beginning of 2020. …
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. Ekkehard …