Engineering virus resistant transgenic cassava: the design of long hairpin RNA constructs against South African cassava mosaic virus

ABSTRACT Cassava is currently the second most important source of carbohydrates on the African continent. In the last two decades, cassava crops have been severely affected by outbreaks of cassava mosaic disease (CMD). South African cassava mosaic virus (SACMV) has been associated with CMD outbr...

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Main Author: Harmse, Johan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4685