Sentences with phrase «tuber crop»

In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.

Food historians speculate that because early civilizations in South America depended on bland tuber crops like such as manioc, jicama, and potatoes, dried chiles were crushed or ground into powders and added to the cooked tubers to spice them up.

, Roots and Tuber Crops as Functional Foods: A Review on Phytochemical Constituents and Their Potential Health Benefits, 2016

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The colonists sent samples of the tuber back to Europe where it became a popular crop.

«Since these tubers and root crops are in direct contact with the soil they may show a greater propensity for [antibiotic] uptake,» said Gupta.

A Penn State geographer is gathering all the information he can about the agrobiodiversity of these uniquely adapted tubers with an eye toward sustainability of this fourth largest food crop worldwide.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker - Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their resistance to the usual diseases of this crop.

Rich in protein, oil, and starch, the marama bean is a tuber - producing perennial legume that could serve as a sustainable crop in subsistence regions.

Healthy cassava tubers — a staple food crop in the region — can grow as thick as your upper arm.

A «natural» diet would mean spending at least half the year eating nuts, winter squashes, tubers and the like... Meat is a great winter «crop» because the weather is cool or cold and the meat is preserved by the cold.

As part of the crop family of Cyperaceae, as well as a perennial crop related to cyprus grass, the starchy tuber is a staple in the diets of those living in North Africa and Spain, while it is also known for being used to embalm the bodies of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.

A Horticulturist is a person who is involved in the science and research of plant cultivation through genetic engineering, plant breeding, crop production, cutting tubers and planting of seeds.