FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-NUREMBERG

The CASS Team consists of eleven research groups from Nigeria, Taiwan, USA, UK, Switzerland and Germany. The project is coordinated from the division of biochemistry of the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen, Germany. Jointly we want to contribution towards improving African food security... We aim to develop robust and yield-improved cassava varieties that will be provided to African smallholder farmers in order to improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa... The physiological basis for increased yield and improved biomass allocation can be attributed to improved photosynthetic carbon assimilation in leaves, long-distance transport of assimilates and their utilization in sink tissues. We aim to develop cassava plants with favorable source-sink relations through genetic engineering of photosynthesis, C/N metabolism, phloem transport, cambial activity and sink metabolism, thereby improving the root yield of cassava.

Also known as: FAU

VAT numbers: DE 132507686

Primary location: Erlangen Germany