The metabotyping of an East African cassava diversity panel: A core collection for developing biotic stress tolerance in cassava.

Cassava will have a vital role to play, if food security is to be achieved in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Central and East Africa. The whitefly Bemisia tabaci poses a major threat to cassava production by small holder farmers in part due to their role as a vector of cassava mosaic begomoviruses (...

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Main Authors: Laura Perez-Fons, Tatiana M Ovalle, M N Maruthi, John Colvin, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Paul D Fraser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242245