JIPB · @JIPB
58 followers · 233 posts · Server mstdn.science

is an important source of in the tropics, and is vital for and . Find out how these two things go together in this new paper!
doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13552
@wileyplantsci

#cassava #food #carbohydrates #magnesium #plant #growth #development #JIPB #aquaporin #Xenopus #plantscience #botany

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Beyond Beans · @beyondbeans
2 followers · 24 posts · Server mastodon.green

is a popular dish similar to couscous made from fermented .

The footage and images were taken in the Aboudé Mendeké Agricultural Cooperative Society (CAAM), in Agnéby-Tiassa, Côte d'Ivoire.

youtube.com/shorts/fxK2mR7A4p8

#attieke #cassava #CommunityDevelopment #farming #IvoryCoast

Last updated 1 year ago

Glen L Creasy · @SabrosiaVit
52 followers · 63 posts · Server epicure.social

Cassava root is being developed for wider use in food products. The video linked below is about researchers in Congo refining ways to remove the cyanide and also to push for allowing it to be used in commercially produced products. Why? The plant is especially hardy and is an ideal candidate for food production given the effects of climate change. It's also high in nutritive value!

aljazeera.com/program/africa-d

#foodsecurity #climatechange #congo #foodscience #cassava #research

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ecosentido · @ecosentido
241 followers · 1714 posts · Server xarxa.cloud

Cassava vying for UNESCO recognition

The staple food for nearly a billion people around the world, cassava, also known as yuca, is enjoying a renaissance here thanks to its gluten and nut-free flour that is used to produce kasav or cassava bread, a popular flatbread of the region’s original Arawak population that until recently was considered poor people’s food in Haiti.

repeatingislands.com/2023/04/1

#WorldHeritage #yuca #cassava #casabe #kasav

Last updated 2 years ago

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ · @dsmz
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📖 Reading time: What is the status of virus resistance in cassava? Learn about the DSMZ’ research to combine resistance against CBSD and CMD 🌱
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

#plantvirus #planthealth #cassava #dsmz #sciencecampusbs #research #collection #biodiversity #resistance

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geekgirl :mastodon: · @geekgirl
403 followers · 1047 posts · Server bne.social

Bought leaves from the market today. Asked the stall holder how to use them in a . He told me they eat them raw. Munched on a few together.

Got home to check on recipes, & apparently they have cyanide & the only way to prepare them is by boiling (disgarding the water) or drying in the sun, which detoxifies them!

Googling signs of cyanide poisoning. Think I'm fine, but who knew! Clearly, not the stall holder. :-) Also cyanide in small amounts, I just read can be good for you.

#cassava #recipe

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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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Leibniz-Institut DSMZ · @dsmz
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Letzte Woche im Labor, diese Woche auf dem Feld in Tansania: Screening von doppelt resistenten Cassava-Varianten unter Realbedingungen.

Last week lab work in Germany, this week field work in Tanzania: Screening the dual resistant clones and the progeny of Col 40 cassava under high pressure of the in field trail in

#cassava #cbsd #cmd #whiteflies #tanzania

Last updated 2 years ago

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ · @dsmz
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In dieser Woche begrüßt die Abteilung Pflanzenviren Forschende aus der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, Uganda, Tansania, Nigeria und Laos zu einem mehrtägigen Workshop. Thema ist die Entdeckung und Bekämpfung des Cassava-Virus, das immer wieder zu großen Ernteausfällen beim Anbau von Cassava (Maniok) führt.

Mehr Infos zur Pflanzenviren-Forschung an der DSMZ: dsmz.de/research/plant-viruses

#cassava #forschung #maniok #pflanzenviren #pflanzengesundheit #dsmz #plantvirus

Last updated 2 years ago

RT @WFP_Africa: ✅ Nutritious
✅ Drought & flood resistant
✅ Versatile
✅ Delicious

ticks all the boxes making it a perfect crop for farmers in 🍠🍠

@WFP is supporting families to grow food that can withstand the impacts of the to improve food security.

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/MonicaSilvana

#cassava #SouthSudan #ClimateCrisis

Last updated 2 years ago

Erik Delaquis · @ErikDee
104 followers · 34 posts · Server fediscience.org

CIAT cassava scientists have cut the breeding cycle time in half. Lead breeder Xiaofei Zhang explains how a combination of red light exposure, pruning, and growth hormone reduces the time to 7 months while increasing seed production up to 20x.
Huge implications for improving the 3rd biggest calorie provider in the global tropics and an essential pro-poor crop.





@agriculture

#food #agriculture #breedingbiology #breedingefficiency #cassava

Last updated 2 years ago

Sterling Ericsson · @sterlingericsson
115 followers · 101 posts · Server mstdn.science

Being able to control not just what genes exist in a genome, but also how those genes are expressed is critical to biological research, including agricultural disease resistance research.

UCLA and Danforth Center scientists have used an older method of DNA manipulation (zinc finger nucleases) to block a cassava gene exploited by the cassava bacterial blight pathogen.

nature.com/articles/s41467-022

#agriculture #zfn #genomics #biology #scicomm #cassava #epigenetics #epigenome #methylation

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
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Artist trying to stay inspired · @WJGunning
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Cecilia G. Flocco · @cecilia_flocco
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RT @SamarSheat@twitter.com

Thrilled to share our work @Leibniz_DSMZ_en@twitter.com & @NextGenCassava@twitter.com
Another chapter in our BIG Story to understand more and and highlight the genotypes is there🌿
And the story will continue with
more passion 🍃
@DrStephanWinte1@twitter.com
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

#cbsd #cmd #resistant #cassava

Last updated 2 years ago

Lazy Somm · @LazySomm
25 followers · 22 posts · Server epicure.social

Sharing some photos of Cassava’s VIP dinner last September (San Francisco, US).

#cassava #sanfrancisco #foodie #サンフランシスコ #グルメ

Last updated 2 years ago

Babette · @BabetteFfest
59 followers · 41 posts · Server toot.wales

Looking for people who are growing afrocaribbean vegetables in the UK. I need some advice, please. Examples , ,

#seeds #urbangarden #blacktwitter #BlackMastodon #afrocaribbean #gardening #collard #callaloo #cassava #okra

Last updated 2 years ago

Magpieblog · @sarahc
373 followers · 1018 posts · Server mas.to

Is it a yam or is it a sweet potato? The answer gets way more complicated than I ever imagined.

H/T: @BigAngBlack

tending.to/blether/index.php/2

#Taro #cassava #sweetpotatoes #yams

Last updated 2 years ago

bhalomanush · @AnirbanM
506 followers · 417 posts · Server mastodon.social

Potato chips are awesome, but so are cassava chips from Costa Rica and Honduras. Potatoes are New World crops but so are cassavas - and their starchy goodness kind of goes under the radar across much of the U.S. A pity!

Feasting on two of my favorite snacks while watching the World Cup on morning

#thanksgiving #yuca #cassava

Last updated 2 years ago

bhalomanush · @AnirbanM
735 followers · 1107 posts · Server mastodon.social

Potato chips are awesome, but so are cassava chips from Costa Rica and Honduras. Potatoes are New World crops but so are cassavas - and their starchy goodness kind of goes under the radar across much of the U.S. A pity!

Feasting on two of my favorite snacks while watching the World Cup on morning

#thanksgiving #yuca #cassava

Last updated 2 years ago