What is the temperature in your garden? Ours is +37°C But it’s a tag of war for crops to survive, apart from coffee
#Cassava
Cassava may not be Uganda’s main staple, but in many villages it’s the most edible and reliable food together with pumpkin. If we secure our land, we will dedicate part of it to growing cassava and pumpkin for community food security, especially supporting vulnerable and disabled members. Growing food is growing dignity 🌱
#FoodSecurity #Cassava #Pumpkin #CommunityFarming #YouthLed #DisabilityInclusion https://www.gofundme.com/f/buying-land-eco-youths-network-uganda
Someone put my mind at ease please 😂 Why do I always get myself into these situations?
So someone recommend cassava chips, which I made last week (from frozen cassava) I followed the instructions then.
Last night I thought let’s defrost and air fry because I wasn’t happy with the texture. So did that, then air fried this morning to test.
After killing the seeds the first time, second attempt has seen success: Manihot esculenta, or Cassava is now well established in the greenhouse!
A shockingly fast growing plant (these are hardly a month old if that) and rather ornamental with those strange leaves, Cassava is a South American native that has established quite a widespread usage worldwide for food. Thick starchy roots are prepared in all sorts of ways from boiled and fried as a potato-like vegetable to ground into flour or processed into that strangely textured but popular food, tapioca.
What’s rather surprising about this though, is that this is not a plant you can safely eat normally; it must be soaked or heavily boiled, because otherwise it is packed full of cyanogens, hydrogen and nitrogen-rich chemicals that when ingested, break down to release hydrogen cyanide. Even just a small amount of raw cassava may well be lethal, so it begs the question: how did people figure out that this toxic root could eventually be processed into food?
#manihotesculenta #cassava #edibleplants #educational #strangeplants #seedgrown #ornamentalplants #botany #plants #horticulture #plantsmakepeoplehappy #botanical #gardening #carltoncarnivores
A shockingly fast growing plant (these are hardly a month old if that) and rather ornamental with those strange leaves, Cassava is a South American native that has established quite a widespread usage worldwide for food. Thick starchy roots are prepared in all sorts of ways from boiled and fried as a potato-like vegetable to ground into flour or processed into that strangely textured but popular food, tapioca.
What’s rather surprising about this though, is that this is not a plant you can safely eat normally; it must be soaked or heavily boiled, because otherwise it is packed full of cyanogens, hydrogen and nitrogen-rich chemicals that when ingested, break down to release hydrogen cyanide. Even just a small amount of raw cassava may well be lethal, so it begs the question: how did people figure out that this toxic root could eventually be processed into food?
#manihotesculenta #cassava #edibleplants #educational #strangeplants #seedgrown #ornamentalplants #botany #plants #horticulture #plantsmakepeoplehappy #botanical #gardening #carltoncarnivores
#Manihot esculenta, commonly called #cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Althoug
⚠️ 4 KHÔNG khi ăn sắn luộc để tránh ngộ độc:
1️⃣ Không ăn khi đói
2️⃣ Không ăn sắn sống/chưa chín kỹ
3️⃣ Không ăn quá nhiều một lúc
4️⃣ Không ăn cả vỏ sắn
Sắn luộc ngon và bổ dưỡng nhưng cần chế biến đúng cách! 🌿🍠
#AnToanThucPham #FoodSafety #SắnLuộc #Cassava #SứcKhỏe #HealthTips
https://vietnamnet.vn/4-khong-khi-an-san-luoc-nhat-la-luc-doi-2448447.html
Xăng E10 sẽ phủ sóng toàn quốc từ năm 2026! Tin vui cho bà con nông dân trồng sắn, giúp giảm phụ thuộc vào thị trường xuất khẩu bấp bênh và tăng thu nhập. 🌱
#xăngE10 #nôngnghiệp #sắn #nănglượngsinhhọc #E10Fuel #agriculture #cassava #biofuel
Kurze Erinnerung: Noch könnt ihr euch für ein Gespräch mit den DSMZ-Forschenden zu den diesen Themen anmelden 👇
Anmeldung: https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/neues/veranstaltungen/book-a-scientist
#BookAScientist #ernährung #pflanzengesundheit #pflanzenviren #phagen #antibiotika #gesundheit #cassava #sequencing
News from the battle between plants and viruses – our expert Samar Sheat summarises the success of fighting cassava diseases.
book your session: https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/neues/veranstaltungen/book-a-scientist
Get toxic #lead out of #cassava products
#ConsumerReports
Consumer Reports’ new investigation of foods made from cassava, a root vegetable touted as a gluten- and grain-free option, detected some of the highest lead levels we’ve ever found in our testing. ... we recommend that consumers avoid eating them: cassava flour marketed by the brands Bob’s Red Mill, Otto’s Naturals, and Quay Naturals, and a cassava-based pasta made by the company Jovial.
❗️🆕 Don’t miss this short introduction to the work of the DSMZ plant virus department
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_nSwHWV9E
🥳 Congratulations! Dr. Samar Sheat received the poster prize at the International Society for Tropical Root Crops, Africa Branch (ISTRC-AB) meeting.
For information on other interesting plant virus research, visit us on www.dsmz.de/research/plant-viruses.
Uprooting #cassava #disease: Scientists identify causes of two devastating #crop diseases
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-uprooting-cassava-disease-scientists-devastating.html
I managed to plant most of the cassavas today.
The weather was great, cloudy and cool. Started to rain only at sunset.
#agroforestry #agriculture #mandioca #macaxeira #cassava #abundance
#Biofortification of staple crops can reliably alleviate #vitaminA deficiency. Carotene-rich #cassava in children's #diets improved their #retinol levels, but #plantbreeding programs in #Africa require better infrastructure & human capacity to optimize efforts: https://doi.org/10.1155/aia/9937876 #nutrition
Evaluating a #Cassava Crop Growth #Model by Optimizing Genotypic-Specific Parameters Using Multi-environment Trial Breeding Data
by Pamelas M. Okoma, Siraj S. Kayondo, Ismail Y. Rabbi, Patricia L. Moreno-Cadena, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Jean-Luc Jannink
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.29.620843 via @biorxiv_plants #model #PlantScience 🧪 #DSSAT
🚨 Es gibt noch freie Termine bei #BookAScientist!
Unsere Pflanzendoktoren sind dabei 😉 Dr. Björn Krenz und Dr. Samar Sheat sprechen mit euch über #Pflanzenviren in der Landwirtschaft und die #Cassava Forschung an der DSMZ
Mehr Infos 👉 www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/bookascientist
Exciting news for cassava lovers! 🥳 We have just released the phased genome sequence and annotation for the virus-resistant cultivar COL40. Key finding: a large region of repetitive elements on chromosome 12
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.30.615795
#Genomics #Cassava #Research
@PuckerLab @tubraunschweig
#BookAScientist - unsere Pflanzendoktoren sind dabei 😉 Dr. Björn Krenz und Dr. Samar Sheat sprechen mit euch über #Pflanzenviren in der Landwirtschaft und die #Cassava Forschung an der DSMZ
Mehr Infos 👉 www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/bookascientist
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