Amylose content varied significantly between cassava families and progeny, with most of the variation recorded within progeny. Some S1 individuals in all of the six families had amylose content values that exceeded the non-inbred parent. Indeed, an individual in the TMS 30572 family exceeded the parent by a maximum amount of 46%. In five of the six families, the mean of the S1 progeny was however higher than that of the S0 progenitor (Table 4). The lowest amylose content (11.8%) was recorded in S1 progeny from 95/SE-00036, while the highest (34.2%) was recorded from S1
progeny from MH95/0469 (Table 4). With exception of progeny from parental genotype NASE 4 and 95/SE-00036, that had negative skewness, all other progeny had positive skewness for amylose content