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Author : R. Castillo T.
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michael Hermann
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : 9290433515
Andean roots tubers at the crossroads; Ahipa: pachyhizus (Wedd.) Parodi; Arracacha: arracacha xanthirrhiza Bancroft; Maca: Lepidium meyenii Walp; Yacon: Smallanthus sconchifolius (Poepp. & Endl.).
Author : Hermann, M.
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-22
Category : Root crops
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregion Andina (CONDESAN)
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science and Technology for International Development,Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309042642
This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States. Lost Crops of the Incas includes vivid color photographs of many of the crops and describes the authors' experiences in growing, tasting, and preparing them in different ways. This book is for the gourmet and gourmand alike, as well as gardeners, botanists, farmers, and agricultural specialists in developing countries.
Author : Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research,Gregory J. Scott
Publisher : IITA
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Root crops
ISBN : 9290602031
In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.
Author : J.E. Bradshaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387927657
It is important to include Tuber and Root Crops in the Handbook of Plant Breeding. They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN International Year of the Potato in recognition of this role of the potato as the world’s third most important food crop after wheat and rice. The other major staples are cassava, sweetpotato and yam. Together they occupy about 50 million hectares, with production at 640 million metric tons, of which 70% is in developing countries. In total there are more than 30 species of Root and Tuber Crops grown in the world today. Given the content of other volumes in the series, it makes sense to include sugar and fodder beets; swedes and turnips; and minor root and tuber crops so that the book series is as complete as possible. Like the other volumes in the series, this one will present information on the latest in applied plant breeding using the current advances in the field, from an efficient use of genetic resources to the impact of biotechnology in plant breeding. Seven crop specific chapters are proposed, together with an introduction to this diverse set of plant species. Outstanding scientists for each crop species are proposed as senior authors, who may invite co-authors to contribute part of a chapter. In order to increase the overall acceptance of the volume, balance will be sought with authors from different research groups/countries who will be asked to contribute and collaborate where appropriate. The book should be of interest to researchers in both academic and industrial settings, and in both developed and developing countries, as well as students and teachers of plant breeding. It is currently extremely important to educate and train a new generation of plant breeders given the challenges faced by humankind in producing more food for an expanding global population during a period of environmental (including climate) change.
Author : J. Esteban Hernández Bermejo,J. León
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251032173
About neglected crops of the American continent. Published in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of Cord�ba (Spain) as part of the Etnobot�nica92 Programme (Andalusia, 1992)
Author : Alfredo Grau
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Root crops
ISBN : 929043581X
Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. No. 25(2003).
Author : Hugo Campos,Oscar Ortiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030286835
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.
Author : Kazuo N. Watanabe,Eija Pehu
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080551327
Plant Biotechnology And Plant Genetic Resources, which boasts a truly international list of contributors with a variety of expertise, thoroughly explores all the major contemporary concerns. It discusses the strategies for the best use of modern biotechnology and precious plant genetic resources to alleviate components associated with global constraints in hunger, environment and health. This book is a valuable resource for scientists and policy makers as the world faces unprecedented challenges in the sustainability and productivity of the global food and fibre system.
Author : Yoav Waisel,Amram Eshel,Tom Beeckman,Uzi Kafkafi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1749 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780824744748
The third edition of a standard resource, this book offers a state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary presentation of plant roots. It examines structure and development, assemblage of root systems, metabolism and growth, stressful environments, and interactions at the rhizosphere. Reflecting the explosion of advances and emerging technologies in the field, the book presents developments in the study of root origin, composition, formation, and behavior for the production of novel pharmaceutical and medicinal compounds, agrochemicals, dyes, flavors, and pesticides. It details breakthroughs in genetics, molecular biology, growth substance physiology, biotechnology, and biomechanics.
Author : Caius Rommens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Crops
ISBN : 1986600831
-THIS BOOK HAS SERVED ITS FUNCTION AND IS RETIRED-GMO potatoes are quietly entering the market place with innocuous names such as Innate, White, and Hibernate. They are suggested to have maintained all the original traits of normal potatoes and to have gained three new traits: enhanced disease resistance, enhanced uniformity, and enhanced healthiness. However, the reality is different. As a crop, the potatoes contain genetically unstable traits, two of which appear to have been lost already (or are in the process of being lost), suffer a significant yield drag and reduction in size profile, conceal bruises and potentially spread diseases, may be grown and stored in ways that maximize disease and pest pressures, and were developed through an act of biopiracy. As a processed food, they lost the sensory attributes that make normal potato foods so attractive, and they are also likely to contain new toxins. If it were up to me, the creator of these potatoes, I would call them Pandora's Potatoes. They are the worst GMOs ever commercialized.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Roots (Botany)
ISBN : OCLC:633001336
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX