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Open AccessThe tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective
Matching crop varieties to their target use context and user preferences is a challenge faced by many plant breeding programs serving smallholder agriculture. Numerous participatory approaches proposed by CGIA...
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Open AccessA population based expression atlas provides insights into disease resistance and other physiological traits in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Cassava, a food security crop in Africa, is grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. Although cassava can provide high productivity in suboptimal conditions, the yield in Africa is substantially lower than...
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Open AccessExpansion of the cassava brown streak pandemic in Uganda revealed by annual field survey data for 2004 to 2017
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is currently the most devastating cassava disease in eastern, central and southern Africa affecting a staple crop for over 700 million people on the continent. A major outbr...
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Open AccessExchanging and managing in-vitro elite germplasm to combat Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) in Eastern and Southern Africa
Cassava varieties resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) are needed for the food and income security of the rural poor in eastern and southern Africa (ESA). The Inter...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association map** and genomic prediction for CBSD resistance in Manihot esculenta
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is an important security crop that faces severe yield loses due to cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). Motivated by the slow progress of conventional breeding, genetic improvem...
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Open AccessCassava haplotype map highlights fixation of deleterious mutations during clonal propagation
Fei Lu, Punna Ramu and colleagues construct a cassava haplotype map (HapMapII) by using deep-sequencing data from 241 accessions and identify over 28 million segregating variants. They find that clonal propaga...
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Open AccessField evaluation of selected cassava genotypes for cassava brown streak disease based on symptom expression and virus load
Production of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), a food security crop in sub-Saharan Africa, is threatened by the spread of cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) which manifests in part as a corky necrosis in the ...
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Open AccesssolGS: a web-based tool for genomic selection
Genomic selection (GS) promises to improve accuracy in estimating breeding values and genetic gain for quantitative traits compared to traditional breeding methods. Its reliance on high-throughput genome-wide ...
