Tropical Root and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato, Yams and Aroids

By V. Lebot. 2008

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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Review of empirical and emerging breeding methods and tools for yam ( Dioscorea spp.) improvement: Status and prospects (2019, background): “…D. cayenensis and D. rotundata are by far the major cultivated species worldwide, while D. bulbifera, D. esculenta, D. opposita, D. japonica, D. nummularia, D. pentaphylla, D. transversa, D. trifida and D. dumetorum are also economically important (Lebot, 2009; Sonibare, Asiedu, & Albach, 2010).”
Postharvest Handling and Storage of Fresh Cassava Root and Products: a Review (2015, background): “Cassava roots stored below 3 °C exhibit internal browning disorder (Rickard and Coursey, 1981), and the rate of deterioration is faster for cassava roots once removed from low temperatures to room temperature (Lebot 2009).”
Cassava about‐FACE: Greater than expected yield stimulation of cassava (Manihot esculenta) by future CO2 levels (2012, background): “…is preferred, but drought is recurrent, cassava is harvested when other crops fail (F.A.O., 2005), and cas- sava provides food security during armed conflicts when above ground crops are destroyed as the cassava tuber remains viable below ground for up to three years (Cock, 1982; Lebot, 2009).”
Origin and domestication of native Amazonian crops. (2010, background): “Arawak words cassavi or cazabi, meaning bread [13].”
Global synthesis of drought effects on cereal, legume, tuber and root crops production: A review (2017, background): “, yam) even had better adaptation to early-phase drought where the young plants were devoid of leaves (and therefore had very low transpiration) and could tap most of its early moisture needs from the ‘mother’ tuber (Lebot, 2009).”