From Sugar Transport to Food Security – Research with Real-World Impact! 🌱 We are delighted to share that Michelle Fritzler, PhD researcher at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and member of the CASS project, received not one, but two awards at the Young Researchers Symposium 2026 in Kaiserslautern! 🥇 1st Place – Best Talk Award 🏆 Transfer Award – supported by IHK Pfalz In her award-winning presentation, “From Sugar Transport to Food Security: Engineering Climate-Resilient Cassav

From 15–18 September, the CASS community came together at Paasitorni in Helsinki for our Annual Meeting. Four days of scientific exchange, discussion and collaboration. Researchers and partners from across the CASS consortium shared their latest progress from carbon transport and storage root development to metabolism, cassava transformation, field testing, phenotyping and data management. A particular highlight was our joint session with colleagues from Realizing Increased P

Today we celebrate a crop that sustains hundreds of millions of people around the world. At CASS, researchers across multiple countries are working together to better understand cassava growth, development and carbon allocation. We believe that scientific collaboration is essential for addressing future food security challenges. Thank you to all researchers, farmers, students and partners contributing to cassava science worldwide. 🌱 Happy World Cassava Day! #WorldCassavaDay

Cassava is one of the world’s most important food crops. ✔️ Staple food for more than 800 million people ✔️ Highly resilient under challenging growing conditions ✔️ Essential for food security across tropical regions Yet cassava still receives far less scientific attention than many other major crops. At CASS, we are working to better understand how cassava allocates carbon and resources within the plant to help unlock its full potential for farmers and communities worldwide.