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Zinc and iron fortification in cassava

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Cassava engineered to retain more iron and zinc faces challenges before moving into fields and onto forks.

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Fig. 1: Cassava fortified with vitamin A using breeding is being tested and released in Africa.

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  1. International Potato Center, Sub-Saharan Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya

    Marc Ghislain, Tawanda Muzhingi & Jan W. Low

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Ghislain, M., Muzhingi, T. & Low, J.W. Zinc and iron fortification in cassava. Nat Biotechnol 37, 130–132 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0014-5

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