Engineering Cassava for Faster Flowering and Variable Starch (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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A new plant breeding technique to improve cassava cultivation: a proof-of-concept study for improved starch. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 5th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.E. Bull at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, " Accelerated ex situ breeding of GBSS- and PTST1-edited cassava for modified starch."

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