Cassava (Manihot spp.) has become an important crop in many parts of the world for processing into several human foods and industrial commodities. Increased utilization of cassava and its products has been a catalyst for industrial development, creating sources of income for farmers, processors and traders. In poorer developing countries of the tropical and semi-tropical climates where wheat ca...

The yield and properties of ethanol biofuel produced from five different whole cassava flours were investigated. Ethanol was produced from five different whole cassava flours. The effect of quantity of yeast on ethanol yield, effect of whole cassava flour to acid and mineralized media ratio on the yield of ethanol produced, and the physical properties of ethanol produced from different cassava ...

This study investigated the metabolizable energy (ME) intake, net energy of production (NEp), heat production (HP), efficiencies of ME use for energy, lipid and protein retention as well as the performance of broiler chickens fed diets based on cassava chips or pellets with or without supplementation with an enzyme product containing xylanase, amylase, protease and phytase. The two products, ca...

Begomoviruses (Geminiviridae) are serious plant pathogens infecting dicotyledonous plants among important crop plants. The majority of the members comprises bipartite genomes (DNA A and B), encapsidated in twin particles and transmitted by the whitefly-vector Bemisia tabaci. Cassava (Manihot esculenta, Crantz) production is restricted by begomovirus inducing Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) in Afri...

Eight male cattle of the Local Yellow breed with an average live weight of 121 kg and an average age of 18 months were used to evaluate the effects of different levels of sun-dried cassava (Manihot esculenta) foliage supplementation on mineral metabolism in growing cattle fed rice straw and para grass as basal diet. Rice straw ad libitum and para grass (Brachiaria mutica) at 1% DM of BW compris...

Cloned DNA-A and DNA-B components of Kenyan isolates of East African cassava mosaic virus (EACMV, EACMV-UG and EACMV-KE2), East African cassava mosaic Kenya virus (EACMKV) and East African cassava mosaic Zanzibar virus (EACMZV) are shown to be infectious in cassava. EACMV and EACMKV genomic components have the same iteron sequence (GGGGG) and can form viable pseudorecombinants, while EACMZV com...

The success of any agricultural innovation depends on its adoption by farmers. The study evaluates the determinants of adoption of vitamin A bio-fortified cassava variety among farmers by investigating the level of adoption and determinants of adoption among farmers. Three stages of random sampling procedure were used to select 240 cassava farmers. The data obtained were analyzed with descripti...

Cassava is planted each year in about 120,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Philippines, producing about 1.8 million tonnes of cassava roots. Principal products of the processing industry are food, dried chips and starch. As a traded commodity, however, cassava contributes only about 2% to gross value-adding in agriculture. The following factors favor the expansion of the industry: a) tr...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an important class of endogenous non-coding single-stranded small RNAs (21-24 nt in length), which serve as post-transcriptional negative regulators of gene expression in plants. Despite the economic importance of Manihot esculenta Crantz (cassava) only 153 putative cassava miRNAs (from multiple germplasm) are available to date in miRBase (Version 21), and identification ...

Cassava (Munihor escuknra CrantE; Euphorbiaceae) is the only species in its genus that is cultivated as a food crop. In South America, where it originated. cassava was domesticated 2,0004,000 years B.c., yet only recently has it become distributed worldwide. The Portuguese began importing cassava into the Gulf of Guinea in Africa in the 16th century. In the 18th century, they introduced it to t...