Comments on the special issue on tropical crops of FASE

Abstract

The issues of tropical crop domestication, genetic diversity of edible part (nutritive values) are of major concerns for topical crops, especially in order to high light the domestication syndrome processes of non-seeds crops as sources of food for humans. The title examples authors listed and the ones added here strengthen the utilization of modern genomics [1,2] , proteomics [3] , new genetic resources [4][5][6] , and biotechnology (Maliwan NACONSIE and Peng ZHANG. Transgenic technologies in cassava for nutritional improvement and viral disease resistance: a key strategy for food security in Africa. DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2016119) [7] toward cassava crop as a tropical plant model for storage root and tuber human edible part.