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Sweet potato storage. The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a very important crop for subsistence farmers in Africa and developing countries in other regions. [1][2] Its relatively short growing period, tolerance to drought and high yield from poor soils lead to its use as a famine reserve for many of these households. [1][2] However, it is a ...
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. [3][4] The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh ...
Sweet potatoes are hypothesised to have been dispersed across the Pacific by Polynesian voyagers. Pictured: reconstructed vaka moana visiting California.. The sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) is originally from the Americas, and became widely cultivated in Central and South America by 2500 BC. [1]
Ipomoea. Ipomoea ( / ˌɪpəˈmiː.ə, - oʊ -/) [3] [4] is the largest genus in the plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 600 species. It is a large and diverse group, with common names including morning glory, water convolvulus or water spinach, sweet potato, bindweed, moonflower, etc. [5] The genus occurs throughout the tropical and ...
Ipomoea reidelii Meisn. Ipomoea riedelii Meisn. Ipomoea teruae Molina & L.O.Williams. Ipomoea batatoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae. [2] This species is found in sub- deciduous tropical forest, from about 100 to 200 meters above sea level. It blooms from August to November.
This list of sweet potato cultivars provides some information about varieties and cultivars of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). The sweet potato was first domesticated in the Americas more than 5,000 years ago. [1] As of 2013, there are approximately 7,000 sweet potato cultivars. People grow sweet potato in many parts of the world, including New ...
Ipomoea pandurata. Ipomoea pandurata, known as man of the earth, [1] wild potato vine, manroot, wild sweet potato, and wild rhubarb, [2] is a species of herbaceous perennial vine native to North America. It is a twining plant of woodland verges and rough places with heart-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped white flowers with a pinkish throat.
Sphaceloma batatas. Elsinoe batatas [teleomorph] Southern blight. Sclerotial blight Sclerotium rolfsii: Scurf Monilochaetes infuscans: Septoria leaf spot Septoria bataticola: Storage rot Epicoccum spp. Fusarium solani Mucor racemosus Sclerotinia spp. Surface rot Fusarium oxysporum. Fusarium solani. Violet root rot Helicobasidium mompa