Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop. But there’s a problem: Cassava is highly poisonous . How can ...

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on ...

The company ended 2024 with just under $127 million in cash reserves, and nothing in its pipeline beyond the Alzheimer's ...

Cassava, also known as manioc or yuca, is a vital staple crop in many tropical and subtropical regions. Its versatility, resilience to climate change, and affordability make it an essential ...

Similar patterns of cassava diversity were found across the different areas of the Amazon region and Caribbean; this is unusual as regional genetic variation is common in widespread crops.

Another overlooked opportunity in agriculture is processed meat production, an industry dominated by large manufacturers ...

Cassava Sciences' troubled development of ... a different mechanism to the current crop of amyloid-targeting Alzheimer's therapies – failed to deliver a statistically significant improvement ...