A genomic assisted breeding program for cassava to improve nutritional quality and industrial traits of storage root

Cassava is cultivated for two ends proposals: “sweet cassava” as fresh consumes and “industry cassava” as source of starch and farina. Landraces were used to discover “spontaneous mutations” and to develop evolutionary and breeding perspective of gene function. Genomic and Proteomic resources were o...

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Main Authors: Josefino de Freitas Fialho, Eduardo Alano Vieira, Luiz Joaquim Castelo Branco Carvalho, Claudia Regina Batista de Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding 2011-01-01
Series:Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://www.sbmp.org.br/cbab/siscbab/uploads/c8eb9792-3650-ac76.pdf