The Sweetpotato

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Loebenstein, Gad (Editor), Thottappilly, George (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Nutrition.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant pathology.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Pathology.

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 cons...