Game-Changer

Game changer

Game Changer features:

  • very high dry matter and high yield
  • Brown stem
  • Profuse branching
  • Broadly adapted
  • Very suitable for gari and fufu
  • Very suitable for high quality flour
  • 100% sprouting ability

Organization: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)

Breeders: Peter Kulakow, Alfred Dixon, Ismail Rabbi, Elizabeth Parkes,
Njoku Damian and Chiedozie N. Egesi

Collaborators: Busie Maziya-Dixon, Bela Teeken, Tessy Madu, Ugo Chijioke,

Pest/Disease tolerance: Resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), resistant tocassava anthracnose disease (CAD); resistant to cassava mealybug (CM); moderately resistant to cassava bacterial blight (CBB), tolerant to cassava green mite (CGM).

Species Manihot esculenta Crantz
Type of variety Hybrid
Pedigree IITA-TMS-IBA993073/IITA-TMS-IBA051740
Morphological characteristics Compact plant with mixed branching pattern
Adaptation Rainforest to Southern Guinea Savannah
Days to maturity 10 – 12 months
Potential root yield 39.2 (t/ha)
Nutrient content: Dry matter content (42.0%); Starch (32.9%); Reducing sugar (3.9%); Ash (1.9%); Amylose (29.2%); Amylopectin (70.8%)

Hope

Hope

Hope features:

  • High dry matter and very high yield
  • Brown Stem
  • Profuse branching
  • High yielding and broadly adapted
  • Very suitable for gari and fufu
  • Moderately suitable for high quality flour
  • 100% sprouting ability
  • Excellent for gari and fufu

Organization: National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Nigeria / International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria

Breeders: Chiedozie N. Egesi, Damian Njoku, L. Jiwuba, Peter Kulakow, Ismail Rabbi, and Elizabeth Parkes

Collaborators: Joseph Onyeka, Tessy Madu, Ugo Chijioke, Bela Teeken

Pest/Disease tolerance: Resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), resistant to cassava anthracnose disease (CAD); resistant to cassava mealybug (CM); moderately resistant to cassava bacterial blight (CBB), tolerant to cassava green mite (CGM)

Species Manihot esculenta Crantz
Type of variety Hybrid
Pedigree IITA-TMS-IBA980581/IITA-TMS-IBA980505
Morphological characteristics Compact plant with mixed branching pattern
Adaptation Rainforest to Southern Guinea Savannah
Days to maturity 10 – 12 months
Potential root yield 40.1 (t/ha)
Nutrient content: Dry matter content (33.2%); Starch (24.3%); Reducing sugar (4.4%); Ash (2.3%); Amylose (29.4%); Amylopectin (70.6%)

Obasanjo-2

Obasanjo-2 features:

  • Very high dry matter and high yield
  • Silver-brown
  • Moderate top branching
  • High yielding and broadly adapted
  • Very suitable for gari and fufu
  • Very suitable for high quality flour
  • 100% sprouting ability

Organization: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)/
National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)

Breeders: Peter Kulakow, Alfred Dixon, Ismail Rabbi, Elizabeth Parkes,
Njoku Damian and Chiedozie N. Egesi

Collaborators: Busie Maziya-Dixon, Bela Teeken, Tessy Madu, Ugo Chijioke,

Pest/Disease tolerance: Resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), resistant to cassava anthracnose disease (CAD); resistant to cassava mealybug (CM); moderately resistant to cassava bacterial blight (CBB), tolerant to cassava green mite (CGM).

Species Manihot esculenta Crantz
Type of variety Hybrid
Pedigree IITA-TMS-IBA970425/IITA-TMS-IBA930007
Morphological characteristics Umbrella plant with Top branching pattern
Adaptation Rainforest to Southern Guinea Savannah
Days to maturity 10 – 12 months
Potential root yield 38.7 (t/ha)
Nutrient content: Dry matter content (40.7%); Starch (28.6%); Reducing sugar (4.2%); Ash (1.6%); Amylose (30.1%); Amylopectin (69.9%)

Baba-70

Baba-70 features:

  • High dry matter and very high yield
  • Light brown stem
  • Moderate top branching
  • High yielding and broadly adapted
  • Very suitable for gari and fufu
  • Moderately suitable for high quality flour
  • 100% sprouting ability

Organization: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)

Breeders: Peter Kulakow, Alfred Dixon, Ismail Rabbi, Elizabeth Parkes,
Njoku Damian and Chiedozie N. Egesi

Collaborators: Busie Maziya-Dixon, Bela Teeken, Tessy Madu, Ugo Chijioke,

Pest/Disease tolerance: Resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), resistant to cassava anthracnose disease (CAD); resistant to cassava mealybug (CM); moderately resistant to cassava bacterial blight (CBB), tolerant to cassava green mite (CGM).

Species Manihot esculenta Crantz
Type of variety Hybrid
Pedigree TMEB459 half-sib
Morphological characteristics Umbrella plant with top branching pattern
Adaptation Rainforest to Southern Guinea Savannah
Days to maturity 10 – 12 months
Potential root yield 37.5 (t/ha)
Nutrient content: Dry matter content (38.5%); Starch (28.0%); Reducing sugar (4.7%); Ash (2.1%); Amylose (28.6%); Amylopectin (71.3%)

Poundable

Many people often share the nostalgia of cassava varieties they could simply boil and eat or pound. Poundable is more resilient to diseases and pests than the earlier grown cultivars with similar characteristics. On this basis, we can encourage burgeoning cassava seed companies and community seed producers to grow and sell certified seeds of Poundable as a variety that could be pounded.

Poundable features:

  • High dry matter
  • Poundable
  • High yielding
  • Outstanding swelling ability

Organization: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Breeders: Chiedozie N. Egesi, Peter Kulakow, Damian Njoku, Ismail Rabbi, Elizabeth Parkes and Charles Amadi, Mercy Diebiru-Ojo, Alfred Dixon

Collaborators: Maria Okoro, Joseph Onyeka, Busie Maziya-Dixon

Pest/Disease tolerance: Resistant to cassava anthracnose disease (CAD), resistant to Cassava mealybug (CM), moderately resistant to cassava bacterial blight (CBB), resistant to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), tolerant to cassava green mite (CGM)

Species Manihot esculenta Crantz
Type of variety Landrace
Pedigree Not Applicable (Known and grown in Ghana as Ankra; and in some parts of Nigeria as Doya)
Morphological characteristics Erect plant with high branching pattern
Adaptation Rainforest to Southern Guinea Savannah
Days to maturity 10 – 12 months
Potential root yield 26 (t/ha)
Nutrient content: Dry matter content (39.5%); Starch of dry roots (40.3%); Reducing sugar (3.67%); Ash (1.94%); Amylose (23.8%)