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"Dioscorea species, commonly known as yam, are tuberous plants which constitute a major staple food in many parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. This book covers botany, taxonomy, composition and uses, cultivation, production, disessea and pests, and storage"--.

• Cover
• Yams: Botany, Production and Uses
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Botany
  • Taxonomy
  • Molecular Taxonomy
  • Genomics
  • Breeding
  • Physiology
    • Photosynthesis
    • Tuber development
    • Bulbil development
    • Tuber dormancy
• 3 Composition and Uses
  • Nutrients
  • Processing
    • Drying
    • Milling
    • Flour
    • Starch
    • Extrusion
    • Frozen and freeze dried
  • Functional Properties
  • Food Uses
    • Fufu
    • Amala
    • Yam fries
    • Yam crisps
    • Boiled yam
    • Pounded yam
    • Roasted yam
    • Yam pottage
    • Yam couscous
    • Bread
    • Flour
    • Yam peel
    • Other yam-based products
  • Non-food Uses
    • Toxins and pharmaceuticals
    • Flavour and taste
    • Traditional medicines
    • Mental disorder treatments
• 4 Cultivation
  • Propagation
    • Mini-setts
    • Tissue culture
    • Temporary immersion bioreactor (TIB)
    • Aeroponics
    • Stem cuttings
    • True seed
  • Field Practices
  • Environment
  • Staking
  • Fertilizers
  • Harvesting
    • Mechanical harvesting
  • Transport
  • Yield
    • Genotype
    • Soil fertility and fertilizer
    • Propagation
    • Cultivation
    • Diseases and pests
    • Growth substances
• 5 Storage
  • Preharvest Factors
  • Storage Structures
  • Curing
    • The curing process
    • Conditions for curing yams
    • Effects of curing yams on weight loss
    • Effects of curing yams on fungal diseases
    • Other effects of curing
    • Commercial application of curing
  • Sprouting
  • Irradiation
  • Temperature
  • Chemicals
• 6 Diseases and Pests
  • Field Fungal Diseases
  • Postharvest Fungal Diseases
  • Specific Fungal Diseases
    • Anthracnose
    • Aspergillus rot
    • Blue and green mould
    • Botryodiplodia rot
    • Fusarium rot
    • Pseudophloeosporella leaf spot
    • Sclerotium rot
    • Rhizopus rot
    • Pythium rot
  • Control of Fungal Diseases
    • Traditional methods
    • Chemical control
    • Biological control
  • Bacterial Diseases
  • Virus Diseases
  • Physiological Disorders
  • Insect Pests
  • Nematode Pests
• 7 Production
  • Introduction
  • Some Yam Producing Countries
    • American Samoa
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • Barbados
    • Belize
    • Benin
    • Brazil
    • Burkina Faso
    • Burundi
    • Cameroon
    • Cayman Islands
    • Central African Republic
    • Chad
    • China
    • Colombia
    • Comoros
    • Congo
    • Costa Rica
    • Côte d’Ivoire
    • Cuba
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • Dominica
    • Dominican Republic
    • Ethiopia
    • Fiji
    • Gabon
    • Ghana
    • Grenada
    • Guadeloupe
    • Guinea
    • Guyana
    • Haiti
    • Hawaii
    • India
    • Jamaica
    • Japan
    • Kenya
    • Liberia
    • Madagascar
    • Mali
    • Martinique
    • Mauritania
    • New Caledonia
    • Nicaragua
    • Nigeria
    • Niue
    • Pacific islands
    • Panama
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Philippines
    • Puerto Rico
    • Rwanda
    • Samoa
    • São Tomé and Príncipe
    • Solomon Islands
    • St Kitts and Nevis
    • St Lucia
    • St Vincent and the Grenadines
    • South Sudan
    • Sudan
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • Togo
    • Tonga
    • Trinidad and Tobago
    • Uganda
    • Venezuela
    • Wallis and Futuna Islands
  • Trade in Yams
• 8 Some Dioscorea Species
  • D. abysmophila
  • D. abyssinica
    • Composition and uses
  • D. acanthogene
  • D. acerifolia
  • D. acuminata
  • D. aculeata
  • D. alata
    • Composition and uses
    • Harvesting
    • Curing
    • Sprouting
    • Refrigerated storage
  • D. alatipes
  • D. althaeoides
  • D. altissima
  • D. antaly
  • D. arachidna
  • D. aspersa
  • D. bahiensis
  • D. bako
  • D. balcanica
  • D. banzhuana
  • D. batatas
  • D. baya
  • D. belizensis
  • D. belophylla
  • D. bemandry
  • D. bemarivensis
  • D. benthamii
  • D. bicolor
  • D. biformifolia
  • D. birmanica
  • D. brevipetiolata
  • D. buchananii
  • D. buckleyana
  • D. bulbifera
    • Composition and uses
    • Harvesting
    • Storage
    • Invasiveness
  • D. bulbotricha
  • D. burkilliana
  • D. burkillii
  • D. cachipuertensis
  • D. calcicola
  • D. caucasica
  • D. cayenensis
    • Composition and uses
    • Curing
    • Storage
    • Dormancy and sprouting
    • Diseases
  • D. chingii
  • D. chouardii
  • D. cirrhosa
  • D. cochleariapiculata
  • D. collettii
  • D. composita
  • D. convolvulacea
  • D. cotinifolia
  • D. communis
  • D. coriacea
  • D. craibiana
  • D. cubensis
  • D. cumingii
  • D. deltoidea
  • D. demourae
  • D. divaricata
  • D. daunea
  • D. decipiens
  • D. depauperata
  • D. doryphora
  • D. dregeana
  • D. dumetorum
    • Harvesting, handling and storage
  • D. elephantipes
  • D. esculenta
    • Production
    • Composition and uses
    • Curing
    • Harvesting, storage and sprouting
  • D. esquirolii
  • D. exalata
  • D. fasciculata
  • D. fandra
  • D. filiformis
  • D. flabellispina
  • D. fordii
  • D. floribunda
  • D. futschauensis
  • D. galeottiana
  • D. garrettii
  • D. glabra
  • D. gracillima
  • D. gracilipes
  • D. hamiltonii
  • D. hastifolia
  • D. hemsleyi
  • D. heteropoda
  • D. hirtiflora
  • D. hispida
    • Composition and uses
  • D. hombuka
  • D. hurteri
  • D. hypoglauca
  • D. inopinata
  • D. intermedia
  • D. irodensis
  • D. japonica
    • Composition and uses
  • D. kamoonensis
  • D. kerrii
  • D. kratica
  • D. laurifolia
  • D. laxiflora
  • D. lehmannii
  • D. linearicordata
  • D. maciba
  • D. madecassa
  • D. mangenotiana
  • D. marginata
  • D. melanophyma
  • D. membranacea
  • D. menglaensis
  • D. meridensis
  • D. mexicana
  • D. microbotrya
  • D. minutiflora
    • Composition and uses
  • D. monadelpha
  • D. multiflora
  • D. nako
  • D. natalia
  • D. nipponica
  • D. nitens
  • D. nummularia
    • Curing
  • D. opposita
    • Composition and uses
    • Harvesting and storage
  • D. oppositifolia
    • Composition and uses
  • D. orbiculata
  • D. oryzetorum
  • D. orangeana
  • D. ovinala
  • D. panthaica
  • D. paradoxa
  • D. pentaphylla
    • Composition and uses
  • D. persimilis
  • D. petelotii
  • D. pierrei
  • D. piperifolia
  • D. pilosiuscula
  • D. piscatorum
  • D. poilanei
  • D. polygonoides
  • D. polystachya
  • D. praehensilis
  • D. prazeri
  • D. preussii
  • D. proteiformis
  • D. pseudonitens
  • D. pseudotomentosa
  • D. pteropoda
  • D. puber
  • D. pubera
  • D. purpurea
  • D. pyrenaica
  • D. pyrifolia
  • D. quartiniana
  • D. quinqueloba
  • D. racemosa
  • D. retusa
  • D. rockii
  • D. rotundata
    • Composition and uses
    • Harvesting and handling
    • Curing
    • Storage
    • Chilling injury
    • Respiration rate
    • Sprouting
    • Modified atmosphere packaging
  • D. sagittata
  • D. sambiranensis
  • D. sanpaulensis
  • D. sansibarensis
  • D. sativa
  • D. schimperiana
    • D. scortechinii
  • D. semperflorens
  • D. sensibarensis
  • D. septemloba
  • D. seriflora
  • D. simulans
  • D. sinoparviflora
  • D. smilacifolia
  • D. soso
  • D. spicata
  • D. spiculiflora
  • D. spongiosa
  • D. stemonoides
  • D. steriscus
  • D. subcalva
  • D. subhastata
  • D. sylvatica
  • D. tauriglossum
  • D. tenuipes
  • D. tentaculigera
  • D. togoensis
  • D. tokoro
  • D. tomentosa
  • D. torticaulis
  • D. transversa
  • D. trifida
    • Composition and uses
    • Cultivation
    • Harvesting and handling
    • Sprouting
    • Storage
    • Modified atmosphere packaging
  • D. trifoliata
  • D. trilinguis
  • D. undatiloba
  • D. variifolia
  • D. velutipes
  • D. versicolor
  • D. villosa
    • Composition and uses
    • Cultivation
    • Harvesting and storage
  • D. wallichii
  • D. xizangensis
  • D. yunnanensis
  • D. zingiberensis
• References
• Index
• Back Cover