There are hundreds of related plants, including rubber trees, trees that produce castor and tung oil, and the cassava, a root crop.

大戟科有数百种相关植物，包括橡胶树，产生蓖麻油和桐油的树，以及木薯这种块根作物。

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Cassava is a starch crop of which the product harvested is the root tubers.

木薯是淀粉作物，收获的产品主要是块根。

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The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide. Cassava starch is also the source of tapioca.

木薯根该植物的根，经沥滤和晒干去除氰化物后，作为一种主要食物在热带地区食用。木薯粉也是食用淀粉的来源。

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But you do, in fact, have to worry about long-term exposure, cyanide poisoning in terms of long-term effects in certain populations that do get the bulk of their carbohydrates from this root, from the root of the Cassava plant.

但是你确实，不得不担心长时间的接触，氰化物的慢性中毒会对,从木薯根中获取大部分,碳水化合物的部分人群产生影响。

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In areas where adults are reduced to eating just one meal a day, babies are fed little more than flavored cassava root or a thin gruel.

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The first synthetic maize was released in Kenya in 1961 and even lowly cassava, a starchy root vegetable, benefited from genetic embellishments in the 1970s.

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