The Sweetpotato

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Gad Loebenstein, George Thottappilly
Springer Science & Business Media, 2009. márc. 21. - 522 oldal

In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.

 

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Introductory Remarks
3
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry University of Ibadan Nigeria
6
Storage Root Formation and Development
13
Important Cultivars Varieties and Hybrids
27
Genetic Engineering
41
Propagation of Sweetpotatoes In Situ Germplasm Conservation
65
Major Fungal and Bacterial Diseases
81
Virus and Phytoplasma Diseases 105
104
A Serious Challenge
268
Sweetpotato Production in the United States 287
285
Sweetpotato in China
325
Sweetpotato in SubSaharan Africa
359
Sweetpotato in the Indian SubContinent
391
Sweetpotato in South America
415
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438
Sweetpotato in West Africa
441

Nematodes
135
Identification Biology and Management
161
Uses and Nutritional Data of Sweetpotato
189
Economics of Sweetpotato Production and Marketing
235
Assessing the Primary Functions
469
Sweetpotato in Israel 483
482
Concluding Remarks
503
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