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The sweetpotato

The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. Giving information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing, this book presents data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world
eBook, English, ©2009
Springer, [Dordrecht], ©2009
1 online resource (xxx, 522 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781402094750, 9781402094743, 9781282068308, 1402094752, 1402094744, 128206830X
341597736
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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