Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

Root, tuber and banana (RT&B) crops are widely cultivated across the landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These staple food crops play a fundamental role in smallholder farming systems due to their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ñame or Jamaican yam is a tuber. It has a very high starch content, and wouldn't be very good for a low-carb diet. But it is ...

When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of Pacific spices five hundred years ago, it was a famous miscalculation. Columbus instead made landfall in the Caribbean among the Taíno, a ...

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 ...

I was on the hunt for the winter pebbles, an assortment of turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips and winter radishes that some enterprising farmers at my local market sell as a mix. They look ...