Cassava is one of the most important food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Botanically, cassava is a perennial woody shrub, although farmers harvest the tuberous roots and leaves during the first or second year. Cassava is mainly propagate from stem cuttings. The number of shoots which develop from a stem cutting depends on several agronomic and genetic factors. Cassava is monoecious, with male and female flowers located on the same plant. Adventitious roots at the base of the stem develop in to a fibrous root system. A few fibrous roots increase in diameter an become tuberous roots.

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