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Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.): Sree Padmanabha

 Salient features

• Tall, late branching type plant having 5–7 medium broad lobed leaves with dark green petiole.
• Long cylindrical and silvery white tubers with white rind and flesh.
• Takes 9–10 months to maturity.
• Cooking quality: good.
Dry matter: 34.0%.
Total starch: 25.8%.
Cyanogen: 38–45 ppm.

Performance
• The yield of tubers varies from 38 to 46 tonne/ha.
• It can tolerate moderate drought.
• Resistant to cassava mosaic disease.




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