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The metabotyping of an East African cassava diversity panel: A core collection for developing biotic stress tolerance in cassava.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Perez-Fons Laura, Ovalle Tatiana M, Maruthi M N, Colvin John, Lopez-Lavalle Luis Augusto Becerra, Fraser Paul D
Abstract excerpt
Cassava will have a vital role to play, if food security is to be achieved in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Central and East Africa. The whitefly Bemisia tabaci poses a major threat to cassava production by small holder farmers in part due to their role as a vector of cassava mosaic begomoviruses (CMBs) and cassava brown streak ipomoviruses (CBSIs). In the present study untargeted metabolomics has been used as a...
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