Cyanide and cassava breeding
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) contains cyanogenic glucosides which lead to the release of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) after hydrolysis. A study carried out using six cassava populations revealed that the broad-sense heritability for HCN was relatively low at 34.58 and 32.18 percent in roots and leav...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | Inglés |
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1994
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101070 |
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