Drought adversely affects tuber development and nutritional quality of the staple crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-200

  Vandegeer, Rebecca ^a   Miller, Rebecca E ^a   Bain, Melissa ^a   Gleadow, Roslyn M ^a   Cavagnaro, Timothy R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

chemical defence; climate change; cyanide; cyanogenesis; cyanogenic glycosides; food security; konzo; linamarin; manioc; water stress.

Indexed keywords

CASSAVA; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DISEASE CONTROL; DROUGHT STRESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPISODIC EVENT; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SECURITY; TUBER; WATER STRESS;

EID: 84873895803     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP12179     Document Type: Article

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