Tropical Root and Tuber Crops (eBook)

Cassava, sweet potato, yams and aroids

Vincent Lebot (Autor)

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2019 | 2. Auflage
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78924-256-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion people in developing countries. This is an update of this popular title in the Crop Production Science in Horticulture series, originally published in 2009.

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Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion people in developing countries. These species produce large quantities of dietary energy and have stable yields under difficult environmental conditions. This second edition of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops is an authoritative treatment of four important root and tuber crops: cassava. sweet potato, yams, and aroids.
The same format is followed for each crop: Origin and History, Taxonomy and Botany, Breeding and Genetics, Developmental Physiology, Agronomy, Pests and Diseases, Post-Harvest Quality and Marketing. This new edition reviews the scientific literature produced during the last decade and presents major technical advancements. Modern molecular tools have been used to clarify the phylogeny, taxonomy and origin of these species. Similar advances have been made in physiology, agronomy, pathology and product chemistry. It is essential reading for students, researchers and horticulturists.

Rezensionen

Graham Thiele, Director of RTB, welcomed the new edition. "It is a unique publication with its comprehensive, scholarly and in-depth treatment across key topics that continue to be of high interest. It is the standard reference on roots and tubers and will be a vital resource for researchers and partners of RTB. We are seeing expanded investment and interest in tropical root and tuber crops and their area continues to expand markedly especially in Africa, making the new edition even more timely."

The book has three primary audiences. One is researchers in developing countries. Lebot's goal for them is to demonstrate that problem-solving approaches used for one species - and perhaps the solutions themselves - may often be equally useful for other species. "Therefore, none of these crops should be neglected," he says.

The book is also for farmers, students, processors, and others with a stake in these crops in developing countries. "I hope to persuade them that dependency on imported food is not inevitable," Lebot says. The book contains global examples of approaches to traditional and industrial processing, many of which could find new applications elsewhere to develop local crops for local markets, with local agro-processing industries to add value.

A third important audience is people Lebot describes as "working in prestigious international institutions". Lebot says that many of them "consider tropical root and tuber crops a mere folk heritage of the past that cannot adapt to modern globalization."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Crop Production Science in Horticulture
• Reihe/Serie: Crop Production Science in Horticulture
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-78924-256-8 / 1789242568
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78924-256-0 / 9781789242560