Cassava's toxicity is its greatest strength; the presence of cyanide acts as a natural defence against pests.

University of Arizona researchers will lead a team to study the genes of the cassava root. The researchers will try to cure a common crop disease and improve the nutritional value of cassava, a root ...

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The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

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Cassava is advancing simufilam through a pivotal phase 3 trial, despite lingering controversy from a SEC investigation. As the company prepares to release trial results, Ben Hargreaves finds that ...

Cassava Sciences' troubled development of Alzheimer's disease candidate simufilam looks like it may have finally reached the end. The Austin, Texas-based biotech revealed that simufilam failed its ...

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Modern supercrops will be a big help. 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 ...

The arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis is formed by a monophyletic group of fungi from the phylum Glomeromycota and the roots of 70–90% of land plant species. AM fungi are considered to be 'living ...