Research shows how to grow more cassava, one of the world’s key food crops

By Stephen P. Long, Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Amanda P. De Souza, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Lynnicia Massenburg, Graduate Student, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cassava makes up nearly 50 percent of the diet in parts of sub-Saharan Africa,…