Farmers shift to climate-resilient sweet potato cultivation as water stress and market demand reshape crop choices.
The creation of a National Mission on Tuber Crops (NMTC) has been proposed for mainstreaming tubers into India’s food basket and increasing productivity and farmer incomes from these often sidelined ...
A team has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families ...
Vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) and horticultural tree crops (HTCs) play an important role in food security and income and represent significant agricultural opportunities in most countries of ...
Root and tuber crops currently provide over 40 per cent of Africa’s food supply, according to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Over the past two decades, production ...
Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 12, No. 2 (1998), pp. 101-104 (4 pages) A field experiment was conducted in 1994 and 1995 to estimate the critical period of crop-weed competition in the ...
Katherine Meacham-Hensold led research that showed engineering improvements in the photorespiratory bypass of potato led to increased tuber mass in heatwave conditions. A team from the University of ...