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Wild and indigenous cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz diversity: An untapped genetic resource
2007-11-01
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Cassava is the most important food for poor people in the tropics. Its roots are used either fresh or in numerous processed forms. It is a shrub with tuberous adventitious roots arising from stem cutting. Wild relatives of cassava are perennial and vary in growth pattern from nearly acaulescent subshrubs to small trees. They have been used as a source of useful characters such as high protein content, apomixis, re...
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- a609a362-9c01-568c-8292-e8510c81dff0
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10722-006-9144-y