The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review

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dc.creatorChavarriaga Aguirre, Paul
dc.creatorBrand, Alejandro
dc.creatorMedina, Adriana
dc.creatorPrías, Mónica
dc.creatorEscobar Pérez, Roosevelt H.
dc.creatorMartínez, Juan
dc.creatorDíaz, Paula
dc.creatorLópez Carrascal, Camilo Ernesto
dc.creatorRoca, W.
dc.creatorTohme, Joseph M.
dc.date2016-10
dc.date2016-08-24T14:52:51Z
dc.date2016-08-24T14:52:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:39:59Z
dc.descriptionThe importance of cassava as the fourth largest source of calories in the world requires that contributions of biotechnology to improving this crop, advances and current challenges, be periodically reviewed. Plant biotechnology offers a wide range of opportunities that can help cassava become a better crop for a constantly changing world. We therefore review the state of knowledge on the current use of biotechnology applied to cassava cultivars and its implications for breeding the crop into the future. The history of the development of the first transgenic cassava plant serves as the basis to explore molecular aspects of somatic embryogenesis and friable embryogenic callus production. We analyze complex plant-pathogen interactions to profit from such knowledge to help cassava fight bacterial diseases and look at candidate genes possibly involved in resistance to viruses and whiteflies—the two most important traits of cassava. The review also covers the analyses of main achievements in transgenic-mediated nutritional improvement and mass production of healthy plants by tissue culture and synthetic seeds. Finally, the perspectives of using genome editing and the challenges associated to climate change for further improving the crop are discussed. During the last 30 yr, great advances have been made in cassava using biotechnology, but they need to scale out of the proof of concept to the fields of cassava growers.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/76548
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/84877
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceChavarriaga Aguirre, Paul; Brand, Alejandro; Medina, Adriana; Prías, Mónica; Escobar, Roosevelt; Martinez, Juan; Díaz, Paula; López, Camilo; Roca, Willy M.; Tohme, Joseph M.. 2016. The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review . In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant . Springer US, 1-18 p.
dc.subjecttransgenic plants
dc.subjectmanihot esculenta
dc.subjectgenetic transformation
dc.subjectgene transfer
dc.subjectsomatic embryogenesis
dc.subjectartificial seeds
dc.subjectpropagation materials
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectplantas transgénicas
dc.subjecttransformación genética
dc.subjecttransferencia de genes
dc.subjectembriogénesis somática
dc.subjectsemilla artificial
dc.subjectmateriales de propagación
dc.subjectcambio climático
dc.titleThe potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review
dc.typeJournal Article

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