Root and Tuber Crops

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bradshaw, J.E (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding ; 7
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Root and Tuber Crops John Bradshaw Editor A number of root and tuber crops were first domesticated several thousand years ago, but none became important on a global scale until after the end of the 16th century. Today the potato is the world’s third most important food crop (314 million tonnes produ...

Table of Contents:

• Potatoes
• Cassava
• Sweet Potato
• Yams
• Taro and Cocoyam
• Sugar Beet
• Fodder Beet
• Swedes and Turnips.