Healthy and Diseased Cassava Plants (IMAGE)

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Healthy and Diseased Cassava Plants

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The leaves of a healthy cassava plant (left) are compared against those of a plant infected with cassava mosaic disease (right). Though cassava is easy to cultivate, it is particularly vulnerable to plant pathogens, which can significantly reduce crop yields. These images complement a paper including UC Berkeley and DOE JGI researchers on cassava genetics published ahead online April 18, 2016 in Nature Biotechnology.

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Healthy cassava plant: Simon Prochnik, DOE JGI. Diseased cassava plant: Jessen Bredeson, UC Berkeley.

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