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 an international effort, we initiated a confined field trial comprising 1600 cassava plants, testing 16 different biotechnological concepts at once. To account for boarder plants...
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. We are relying on the generation of transgenic plants expressing rationally designed gene stacks to improve cassava yield. As our understanding of cassava physiology and...
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 utilization of carbohydrates. To this end, we create cassava plants with alterations in source- and sink metabolism and test them for their performance. Since reliable...