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Contents |
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| Preface-editorial board |
7 |
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| Summary and recommendations of the workshop |
11 |
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| List of participants |
21 |
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| Alphabetical list of authors |
25 |
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| Opening
session |
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| Welcome address
Lucas Brader |
27 |
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| Opening remarks
Robert Asiedu |
29 |
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| Biology
of cyanogenesis |
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| Cyanogenesis&emdash;a personal perspective
Eric E. Conn |
31 |
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| Possible use of a biotechnological approach
to optimize and regulate the content and distribution of cyanogenic
glucosides in cassava to increase food safety
Birgit Maria Koch, Ole Sibbesen, Elizabeth Swain,
Rachel Alice Kahn, Du Liangcheng, Soren Bak, Barbara Ann Halkier
and Birger Lindberg Moller |
45 |
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| Translocation of cyanogenesis in cassava
Dirk Selmar |
61 |
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| Regulation of cyanogenesis in cassava
Wanda L. B. White, Jennifer M. McMahon and Richard
T. Sayre |
69 |
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| The function of cyanogenesis in cassava
Piet Kakes |
79 |
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| Analytical
Methods |
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| Comparison of methods of analysis of
cyanogens in cassava
J. Howard Bradbury, Meredith G. Bradbury and Sylvia
V. Egan |
87 |
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| Further improving the enzymic assay for
cyanogens in cassava products
A. J. Alexander Essers |
97 |
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| Quantitative solid-state detection of
cyanogens: from field test kits to semi-automated laboratory systems
allowing kinetic measurements
Leon Brimer |
105 |
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| Agronomic
research |
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| Distribution of cyanogenic potential
in the cassava germplasm
Mpoko Bokanga |
117 |
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| Relationships between cyanogenic potential
of cassava and other agronomic traits
Nzola Meso Mahungu |
125 |
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| Genotype-environment interactions for
cyanogenic potential in cassava
Mpoko Bokanga, Indira J. Ekanayake, A.G.O. Dixon
and Marcio C.M. Porto |
131 |
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| Cassava cyanogenic potential and resistance
to pests and diseases
Anthony C. Bellotti and Lisbeth Riis |
141 |
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| Breeding of cassava for low cyanogenic
potential: problems, progress and prospects
Alfred G. O. Dixon, Robert Asiedu and Mpoko Bokanga |
153 |
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| Processing
and cyanogen removal |
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| Eliminating cyanogens from cassava through
processing: technology and tradition
Olusegun L. Oke |
163 |
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| Cassava in Amazonia: lessons in utilization
and safety from native peoples
Darna L. Dufour |
175 |
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| Processing approaches to optimising raw
materials and end product quality in the production of cassava flours
Gerard M.O’Brien, Deborah M.Jones, Christopher
C. Wheatley, and Teresa Sanchez |
183 |
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| Evaluation of the effect of various processing
techniques on cyanogen content reduction in cassava
Bala Nambisan |
193 |
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| Processing of cassava leaves for human
consumption
Mpoko Bokanga |
203 |
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| Cyanogen reduction during lactic fermentation
of cassava
Andrew Westby and B.K. Choo |
209 |
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| Making safe flour from bitter cassava
by indigenous solid substrate fermentation
A. J. Alexander Essers |
217 |
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| Processing of cassava roots in Brazil:
safety implications
Marney Pascoli Cereda |
225 |
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| Safety aspects of processing cassava
to Gari in Nigeria
Morenike O. Sanni, Abiodun O. Sobaminwa, C. Modupe
Eyinla and Hans Rosling |
227 |
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| Reduction of cyanogen levels during sun-drying
of cassava in Tanzania
Nicholas L. V. Mlingi and Zoe Bainbridge |
233 |
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| Cassava
in livestock feeds |
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| Indices of cassava safety for livestock
feeding
Olumide Tewe |
241 |
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| Implications for domestic animals of
cyanogenesis in sorghum forage and hay
John L. Wheeler |
251 |
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| Cassava feeding in small holder livestock
units
Eustace A. Iyayi and Olumide O. Tewe |
261 |
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| Human
health and nutrition |
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| Measuring effects in humans of dietary
cyanide exposure from cassava
Hans Rosling |
271 |
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| Fatal and non-fatal acute poisoning attributed
to cassava-based meal
Alade Akintonwa, O. Tunwashe and A. Onifade |
285 |
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| Cassava cyanogenesis and iodine deficiency
disorders
Francois Delange, Louis Ekpechi and Hans Rosling |
289 |
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| The bioanthropological impact of chronic
exposure to sublethal cyanogens from cassava in Africa
Fatimah L. Jackson |
295 |
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| Chronic cyanide intoxication of dietary
origin and a degenerative neuropathy in Nigerians
Benjamin O. Osuntokun |
311 |
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| Konzo: a new human disease entity
W. P. Howlett |
323 |
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| The association between cassava and the
paralytic disease Konso
Thorkild Tylleskar |
331 |
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| Human consumption of plant materials
with neuro-toxic potential
Peter S. Spencer |
341 |
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| Cassava intake and risk of diabetes in
humans
Abayomi O. Akanji |
349 |
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| Socio-economic
aspects |
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| Cassava safety and development
John Lynam |
361 |
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| Cassava safety in times of war and drought
in Mozambique
Julie L.Cliff |
373 |
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| Links between cassava marketing, processing
and dietary cyanide exposure in Zaire
Mayambu Banea and Hans Rosling |
379 |
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| Methods for the dissemination of food
processing technologies: the soybean example in Nigeria
Sidi M. Osho |
385 |
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| Introducing improved cassava processing
technologies in Southern Tanzania
Zoe Bainbridge, Karen Welling, Nigel H. Poulter
and Nicholas L. V. Mlingi |
393 |
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| Importance of cassava processing for
production in Sub-Saharan Africa
Felix I. Nweke and Mpoko Bokanga |
401 |
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| Cassava safety: implications for cassava
biotechnology research
Ann Marie Thro |
413 |
Adapted from material submitted February 2001 by Professor A Westby,
ISTRC Councillor for Publications.
