The authors of a paper suggesting that cassava, a starchy vegetable that's a major food source in much of the developing world, could one day be turned into a food staple "capable of supplying inexpensive, plant-based proteins for food, feed and industrial applications" have retracted it, following an institutional investigation that failed to find critical supporting data.
Here's the notice for the PLoS ONE study, "Transgenic Biofortification of the Starchy Staple Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Generates a Novel Sink for Protein:" Read the rest of this entry »
Here's the notice for the PLoS ONE study, "Transgenic Biofortification of the Starchy Staple Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Generates a Novel Sink for Protein:" Read the rest of this entry »
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