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SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree

The paste made from orange-fleshed sweet potato is becoming the new normal in bread-making in Nigeria, where bakeries have fallen on hard...

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Facing High Wheat Prices, Nigerian Bakers Turn to Potato Puree

Facing High Wheat Prices, Nigerian Bakers Turn to Potato Puree. In the midst of a sunlit room in Nnewi, southeast Nigeria, a woman measures out four parts of sweet potato puree — the colour of apricot — into a large basin containing six parts wheat flour. She adds...

Lagos , Nigeria , Osun-state , Osun , Nasarawa , Sokoto , Ogun-state , Ogun , Port-harcourt , Rivers , Rwanda , South-africa

International Team First to Successfully Stack Virus Resistance Plus Iron and Zinc Biofortification in a Non-Cereal Crop


International Team First to Successfully Stack Virus Resistance Plus Iron and Zinc Biofortification in a Non-Cereal Crop
International Team First to Successfully Stack Virus Resistance Plus Iron and Zinc Biofortification in a Non-Cereal Crop
February 17, 2021
An international team of scientists has successfully developed cassava with high-level resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), as well as higher levels of iron and zinc. This is the first time that disease resistance and multiple biofortification traits have been stacked in this manner in a non-cereal crop.
The research builds on a 2019 research that showed increasing the mineral content of cassava storage roots was possible. It is led by Dr. Narayanan Narayanan, senior research scientist, and Dr. Nigel Taylor, associate member and Dorothy J. King Distinguished Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and their collaborators in Nigeria, led by Dr. Ihuoma Okwuonu of the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike and the US  Department of Agriculture.

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