Tropical root and tuber crops : cassava, sweet potato, yams and aroids /

This book (28 chapters), which is the 17th volume in the Crop Production Science in Horticulture Series (18 volumes that focus on scientific principles underlying production practices for economically important horticultural crops from major production systems in temperate, subtropical and tropical...

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Main Author: Lebot, Vincent
Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI Pub., [2009]
Series:Crop production science in horticulture ; 17.
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Summary:This book (28 chapters), which is the 17th volume in the Crop Production Science in Horticulture Series (18 volumes that focus on scientific principles underlying production practices for economically important horticultural crops from major production systems in temperate, subtropical and tropical climatic areas), summarizes the available information regarding the origin, taxonomy, breeding, physiology, agronomy, pathology (pests and diseases) and processing of cassava, sweet potato, yams and aroids (mainly Alocasia macrorrhiza, Amorphophallus campanulatus, Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosperma merkusii and Xanthosoma sagittifolium). This book is for researchers, farmers, students and all stakeholders in developing countries, and for those who are working in international institutions.
Item Description:Description based on opening page (viewed Mar. 24, 2015).
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Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-404) and index.
ISBN:9781845936211 (NetLibrary e-ISBN)
1845936213 (NetLibrary e-ISBN)
DOI:10.1079/9781845934248.0000