CASSAVASTORE News
We Support One of the World’s Largest Cassava Genotype-Phenotype Databases to Drive Sustainable Crop Improvement
On June 16th, the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) in Thailand, several Thai partners together with the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2 and IBG-4) of Forschungszentrum Jülich, officially launched a large-scale genotype and phenotype database for cassava—one of the world’s most extensive databases of its kind.
This achievement is the result of a collaborative Thai-German research project called CASSAVASTORE, coordinated by Tobias Wojciechowski (IBG-2, left), which aimed at supporting cassava breeding, improving production efficiency, and contributing to long-term food security.