Nigeria: Scientists Develop New Nigerian Cassava

3 October 2012

Plant scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new Nigerian cassava preferred by consumers and farmers that is resistant to the two major virus diseases in Africa and now billed to test the cassavas resistant on the African soil.

According to a release, researchers at ETH Zurich led by a Professor of Plant Biotechnology, Wilhelm Gruissem and his senior scientist, Dr. Hervé Vanderschuren, "Gene technology has been used to develop a new cassava variety that is resistant to the feared cassava brown streak virus. The virus infects the edible starchy roots and turns them brown, which makes the roots unpalatable for consumers," they stated.

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