Sentences with phrase «sweetpotato tissue»

The scientists analyzed a variety of sweetpotato tissue types (mature leaves, young leaves, young petioles, buds, vine sections, and root tissue) from a sweetpotato plot at Louisiana State University in late October and again the following September.

Results also showed that riboflavin content differed with sweetpotato tissue type, but was consistently higher in the leaves; mature leaves contained higher amounts of riboflavin than young leaves and other plant tissues, including roots.

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«The objective of the study was to determine the ascorbic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, and vitamin B6 content in a wide range of edible tissues of «Beauregard» and «LA 07 - 146» sweetpotatoes, two important commercial cultivars in Louisiana,» Barrera and Picha said.

Besides the commonly consumed root of the plant, certain tissues in sweetpotato are also edible and high in nutritional value.

Buds also contained significantly higher AA content than sweetpotato roots, vines, and petiole tissues.

They conducted a third experiment to study water - soluble vitamin content among different sweetpotato root tissues.

«These results confirm previous studies that sweetpotato foliar tissues are a good source of ascorbic acid, and that young leaves have the highest foliar AA content,» the scientists noted.