Sweetpotato exploit

"You're a livestock specialist, what are you doing working with sweetpotato?" Ben Lukuyu laughs as he describes this typical reaction from his colleagues at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, where he works with the multi-partner East African Dairy Development project. But it is sweetpotato's highly promising potential as an animal feed that interests Lukuyu, and has him teaming up with Sammy Agili, a sweetpotato breeder with the International Potato Center (CIP), and other public and private partners in East Africa. Their goal: to better position sweetpotato as a healthy and.

While the sweetpotato and silverleaf whiteflies are similar in many basic traits, the silverleaf whitefly is exceptional in its ability to colonize a wide range of crops, weeds and ornamentals (Perring et al. 1991, Blua et al. 1995). The apparently greater host range of the silverleaf whitefly may be partly due to higher population densities. Root System Architecture in Root and Tuber Crops. Understanding RSA and the mechanisms of its development will allow manipulation and exploitation of different root traits to improve plants’ adaptation to changing climates and increase yields for the growing global human population (Smith and De Smet, 2012).Vegetatively propagated RTCs such as potato (Solanum.