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Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz.) Improvement through Gamma Irradiation
2015
Procedia Food Science
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz., Euphorbiaceae) is an important dietary carbohydrate source for approximately 800 million people in the tropics. Cassava breeding through conventional approaches are hampered with some limitations which resulted in a low number of superior varieties. The objective of this research was to generate several mutant lines with higher yield and starch content. According to field studies it was found that several cassava mutant lines have higher yield (root fresh
doi:10.1016/j.profoo.2015.01.003
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