#Cassava is an important source of #food #carbohydrates in the tropics, and #magnesium is vital for #plant #growth and #development. Find out how these two things go together in this new #JIPB paper!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13552
@wileyplantsci
#aquaporin #Xenopus #PlantScience #BOtany

#Attiéké is a popular dish similar to couscous made from fermented #cassava.

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

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fxK2mR7A4p8

#communitydevelopment #farming #ivorycoast

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!

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/africa-direct/2023/6/7/reinventing-cassava-in-dr-congo

#FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Congo #FoodScience #Cassava #Research

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.
#kasav #casabe #cassava #yuca #WorldHeritage

http://repeatingislands.com/2023/04/17/cassava-vying-for-unesco-recognition/

📖 Reading time: What is the status of virus resistance in cassava? Learn about the DSMZ’ research to combine resistance against CBSD and CMD 🌱
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1042701/full

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

Bought #cassava leaves from the market today. Asked the stall holder how to use them in a #recipe. 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.

The #traditional know-how associated with the making of #cassava bread is the driving force behind the country’s decision to join forces with four other #LatinAmerica & #Caribbean nations - #Cuba , #DominicanRepublic , #Honduras & #Venezuela - to offer the #TraditionalCuisine to #UNESCO for #recognition on its #RepresentativeList of the #Intangible #CulturalHeritage of #Humanity .

https://www.aol.com/once-viewed-food-poor-haiti-124354795.html

#POC #CulturalFood #Haiti #TraditionalFood #SouthAmerica #NaturalFood

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 #cassava clones #CBSD #CMD and the progeny of Col 40 cassava under high pressure of the #whiteflies in field trail in #Tanzania

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: https://www.dsmz.de/research/plant-viruses

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

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

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

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

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MonicaSilvanaG/status/1632288298294018048

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.
#cassava
#breedingefficiency
#breedingbiology
#agriculture
#food
@agriculture

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.

#Agriculture #ZFN #Genomics #Biology #Scicomm #Cassava #Epigenetics #Epigenome #Methylation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35675-7

Researchers publish new #epigenetic editing technique to improve #crops.

#Cassava #CBB #phytopathology #bioengineering

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-publish-epigenetic-technique-crops.html

More moments from my foodforest #Solarpunk #Permaculture #Foodsecurity #Climatechange #SaveSoil #Moringaflowers #Perilla #Cassava #Bananas #Passionfruit

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 #CBSD and #CMD and highlight the #resistant #cassava genotypes is there🌿
And the story will continue with
more passion 🍃
@DrStephanWinte1@twitter.com
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1042701/full

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

Looking for people who are growing afrocaribbean vegetables in the UK. I need some advice, please. Examples #okra, #cassava, #callaloo #collard
#gardening #AfroCaribbean #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #urbangarden #seeds

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

H/T: @BigAngBlack

#yams #SweetPotatoes #cassava #taro

https://tending.to/blether/index.php/2017/07/22/the-yam-question/

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 #Thanksgiving morning #yuca #cassava

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 #Thanksgiving morning #yuca #cassava