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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sweetpotato. [Dordrecht] : Springer, ©2009 (OCoLC)295002419 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
G Loebenstein; G Thottappilly |
ISBN: | 9781402094750 1402094752 1402094744 9781402094743 128206830X 9781282068308 |
OCLC Number: | 341597736 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 522 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Color Plates -- Part I: General -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 Origin, Distribution and Economic Importance -- 3 Botany and Physiology: Storage Root Formation and Development -- 4 Important Cultivars, Varieties, and Hybrids -- 5 Genetic Engineering -- 6 Propagation of Sweetpotatoes, In Situ Germplasm Conservation and Conservation by Tissue Culture -- 7 Major Fungal and Bacterial Diseases -- 8 Virus and Phytoplasma Diseases -- 9 Nematodes -- 10 Sweetpotato Insects: Identification, Biology and Management -- 11 Uses and Nutritional Data of Sweetpotato -- 12 Economics of Sweetpotato Production and Marketing -- 13 Marketing Sweetpotatoes in the United States: A Serious Challenge for Small-to-Moderate Volume Growers -- Part II: Sweetpotatoes in Different Regions -- 14 Sweetpotato Production in the United States -- 15 Sweetpotato in China -- 16 Sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 17 Sweetpotato in the Indian Sub-Continent -- 18 Sweetpotato in South America -- 19 Sweetpotato in West Africa -- 20 Sweetpotato in Southeast Asia: Assessing the Primary Functions of a Secondary Crop -- 21 Sweetpotato in Israel -- 22 Sweetpotato in Oceania -- 23 Concluding Remarks -- Index. |
Responsibility: | editors, Gad Loebenstein, George Thottappilly. |
Abstract:
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. and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world.
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