Cassava (Manihot esculenta) dual use for food and bioenergy: A review

AA Fathima, M Sanitha, L Tripathi… - Food and Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta. Crantz) is a starch‐rich, woody tuberous, root crop
important for food, with little being done to investigate its potential as a bioenergy crop …

The BioCassava plus program: biofortification of cassava for sub-Saharan Africa

R Sayre, JR Beeching, EB Cahoon… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
More than 250 million Africans rely on the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta) as
their staple source of calories. A typical cassava-based diet, however, provides less than …

Targeted mutagenesis of the CYP79D1 gene via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing results in lower levels of cyanide in cassava

BS Juma, A Mukami, C Mweu, MP Ngugi… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cassava is the world's most essential food root crop, generating calories to millions of Sub-
Saharan African subsistence farmers. Cassava leaves and roots contain toxic quantities of …

Cassava: the drought, war and famine crop in a changing world

A Burns, R Gleadow, J Cliff, A Zacarias, T Cavagnaro - Sustainability, 2010 - mdpi.com
Cassava is the sixth most important crop, in terms of global annual production. Cassava is
grown primarily for its starchy tuberous roots, which are an important staple for more than …

Processing techniques to reduce toxicity and antinutrients of cassava for use as a staple food

JA Montagnac, CR Davis… - … Reviews in Food …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cassava is a valuable source of food for develo** countries, but it contains highly toxic
cyanogen compounds and antinutrients. Cyanogens are found in 3 forms in cassava …

Cassava plants with a depleted cyanogenic glucoside content in leaves and tubers. Distribution of cyanogenic glucosides, their site of synthesis and transport, and …

K Jørgensen, S Bak, PK Busk, C Sørensen… - Plant …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Transgenic cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, cv MCol22) plants with a 92%
reduction in cyanogenic glucoside content in tubers and acyanogenic (< 1% of wild type) …

Protein composition, chlorophyll, carotenoids, and cyanide content of cassava leaves (Manihot esculenta Crantz) as influenced by cultivar, plant age, and leaf position

S Chaiareekitwat, S Latif, B Mahayothee, P Khuwijitjaru… - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The variation of proximate compositions, amino acids, carotenoids, chlorophyll, and total
cyanide contents in cassava leaves was studied to identify the most suitable leaves for …

Postharvest handling and storage of fresh cassava root and products: a review

AD Uchechukwu-Agua, OJ Caleb, UL Opara - Food and Bioprocess …, 2015 - Springer
The increase in global demand for healthy food products and initiatives to ensure food
security in develo** countries has focused on the cultivation of drought-resistant and …

Jasmonate and ppHsystemin regulate key malonylation steps in the biosynthesis of 17-hydroxygeranyllinalool diterpene glycosides, an abundant and effective direct …

S Heiling, MC Schuman, M Schoettner… - The Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We identified 11 17-hydroxygeranyllinalool diterpene glycosides (HGL-DTGs) that occur in
concentrations equivalent to starch (mg/g fresh mass) in aboveground tissues of coyote …

Plant secondary metabolites and its dynamical systems of induction in response to environmental factors: A review

T Olivoto, M Nardino, IR Carvalho… - African Journal of …, 2017 - academicjournals.org
Under natural conditions, the plants are, usually, surrounded by a series of potential
enemies. They had created strategies of defense against pathogens and herbivores' attacks …