Category: Cassava Varieties

TMS-50395 in AgSight Collection in 2020

Cassava variety TMS 50395

A variety from IRRI in Ibadan, Nigeria brought back to Australia by Dr Howard Bradbury at ANU in Canberra. Stem cuttings were provided by Dr Bradbury to AgSight in 2016. The variety has since been established in a field nursery at Kununurra in Western Australia. It is also growing in Queensland and at Monash University in Melbourne.

A variety with typically high leaf cyanide content.

SM1-150 in the AgSight Collection in 2020

A variety introduced to Australia from CIAT in about 1980 and was maintained in the Australian Cassava collection at the University of Queensland’s Redland Bay farm near Brisbane. Stem cuttings were sent to Dr Howard Bradbury at ANU in Canberra in about 1990, and subsequently provided by Dr Bradbury to AgSight in 2016. The variety has since been established in a field nursery at Kununurra in Western Australia. It is also growing in Queensland and at Monash University in Melbourne.

A variety with typically low leaf cyanide content.

MCol 1468 in AgSight Collection in 2020

Cassava variety MCol 1468

A variety introduced to Australia from CIAT in about 1980 and was maintained in the Australian Cassava collection at the University of Queensland’s Redland Bay farm near Brisbane. Stem cuttings were sent to Dr Howard Bradbury at ANU in Canberra in about 1990, and subsequently provided by Dr Bradbury to AgSight in 2016. The variety has since been established in a field nursery at Kununurra in Western Australia. It is also growing in Queensland and at Monash University in Melbourne.

A variety with intermediate leaf cyanide content.

MAus7 in the UQ Collection in 1980

MAus7 1980

Formerly called CUQ6 and Fiji.

Originally collected by Doug Forno at Hambeldon Sugar Mill, Cairns in 1972 but believed to be from Fiji. The variety has been widely distributed in Australia, and sent to Africa.

A variety with high-yielding vegetative and storage root production across the range of environments in Australia where cassava was grown.