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On the Web
- Definition and Classification of Commodities: Roots and Tubers and Derived Products - A Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) site that describes root and tuber crops and derived products.
- Sweetpotato - This site provides a general crop information, insect pests, and disease pathogens.
- International Potato Center (CIP) - Information about the center and its roles in promoting potatoes, sweet potatoes and other Andean root crops, and in protecting Andean biodiversity.
- International Potato Center (CIP) - Works to enhance the cultivation, yield, processing, and consumption of potatoes, sweetpotato and other Andean roots and tubers that are in danger of extinction.
- Crop Profiles - Sweetpotato - A section from an online publication, Sustainable Practices for Vegetble Production in the South
- IPM Resources on Potato - Links to diseases, pests and plant pathology research.
- Manrique International Agrotech (MIAT) - Consulting company specialized in tropical agriculture. Publishes books on potato, cassava, sweet potato, taro and other tropical crops. Web site has glossary of agronomic terms and fact sheets on potato, cassava, sweet potato, and taro.
- Cassava Information Network - Information on growing the crop and the industry in Thailand.
- Commercial Sweetpotato Production in Mississippi - Mississippi extension publication, with information on cultivation techniques, management, and pests.
- CGIAR: Cassava (Manihot esculenta) - Information on the crop, its significance, and current research.
Wikipedia Articles
- Baby (crop) - Baby roots or vegetables are food crops harvested well before maturity. The term applies only to vegetative or root crops, as immature fruits are generally called "green" when picked before maturity.
- Cabbage Fly - The Cabbage Fly, also known as the Cabbage Root Fly, is a known pest to crops. Its scientific name is "Delia radicum".
- Heart rot - Heart rot is a fungal disease affecting trees, root crops, and celery. In trees, it is caused by broken bark exposing the underlying wood to the fungus, and typically manifests as a conk or mushroom at the site of infection.
- Storage clamp - A storage clamp is used in the agricultural industry for temporary storage of root crops such as potato, turnip, swede, mangelwurzel, sugar beet etc.
- International Potato Center - ... known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.