The SweetpotatoGad 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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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 |