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Cover Image: Generation of high‐amylose cassava
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12976
Subject(s) - amylose , starch , crop , tropics , agronomy , cover (algebra) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , food science , engineering , ecology , mechanical engineering
Cassava is an important root crop for food and starch production in tropics. In this issue, Zhou et al. (pp. 832–846) reported the generation of high‐amylose cassava by downregulating expression of the BE2 gene. This work can provide a novel source of cassava starch for various industrial applications.