Overview
- An up-to-date publication with more emphasis on propagation technologies, pests and diseases, curing and storage
- Special attention is given to sweet potato in the main production and growing areas worldwide
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General
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Sweetpotatoes in Different Regions
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sweetpotato
Editors: Gad Loebenstein, George Thottappilly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9475-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9474-3Published: 06 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8135-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9475-0Published: 21 March 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 522
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology, Invertebrates, Nutrition