Recommendations for Management of Whiteflies, Whitefly-transmitted viruses, and Insecticide Resistance for Production of Cucurbit Crops in Florida by Susan E. Webb, David J. Schuster, Philip A. Stansly, Jane E. Polston, Scott Adkins, Carlye A. Baker, Pamela Roberts, Oscar E. Liburd, Teresia Nyoike, Eugene McAvoy, Alicia Whidden

“…Until recently, squash has been the only cucurbit crop seriously affected by the B biotype of the sweet potato whitefly, also known as the silverleaf whitefly, because of the silverleaf disorder induced by feeding of the immature stages (nymphs). …”
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Savoirs et usages des recrus post-agricoles du pays Betsileo : valorisation d'une biodiversité oubliée à Madagascar by Stéphanie M. Carrière, H. Andrianotahiananahary, N. Ranaivoarivelo, J. Randriamalala

“…Their mixed economy is primarily based on the growing of irrigated rice, but also partly on the extensive domestic animal breeding and the slash-and-burn cultivation (cassava, sweet potato, corn, bean...) to produce food.  Insofar as the international aid and conservation communities want to stress the ecological importance of the regional of the secondary forests, as well as their important social and economic roles, it is paramount to have baseline data on the local ecological conditions, such as the botanical community occurring in the agricultural secondary forest and regenerating ecotones at the forest edge.  …”
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Microbial Cellulose Production from Bacteria Isolated from Rotten Fruit by B. E. Rangaswamy, K. P. Vanitha, Basavaraj S. Hungund

“…The bacterial isolates obtained from rotten pomegranate, rotten sweet potato, and rotten potato were identified as Gluconacetobacter sp. …”
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Joint Operation of Reservoir Group in Longxi River Basin Considering Agricultural Water Demand by CHEN Si, XU Wei, ZHAO Siqi, YIN Shiming, YANG Yi

“…Water resources in small- and medium-sized basins are often not reasonably allocated,and the utilization rate of water resources is not high.In this paper,five reservoirs in the Longxi River Basin are taken as an example.Firstly,the hydrological model is constructed,and the parameters of the model are calibrated and verified by the 12-year measured runoff of Liujiantan Hydrological Station.The NSE can reach 0.89,the R² is 0.87,and the relative error (RE) is 5.4 %.The inflow process to the reservoir interval is obtained.Secondly,three representative crops of corn,rice,and sweet potato in the basin are selected to construct the reservoir irrigation water demand model.The crop coefficient method and Penman-Monteith formula are adopted to calculate the crop water demand and the USDA-SCS method was used to calculate the effective precipitation.Finally,the joint and single reservoir operation models of the Longxihe reservoir group to maximize the comprehensive water supply and power generation are built,and the POA solution and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process are utilized to optimize the scheme.The results show that the joint operation is more capable to balance the distribution of water resources between upstream and downstream reservoirs,improve the power generation efficiency and water supply guarantee rate,and reduce the amount of abandoned water than the single reservoir operation.…”
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Economic Consequence of Human - Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious) Conflicts on Farming Livelihood in Rural Adamawa State, Nigeria by Celestine Lumbonyi, Patrick Boni, Ibrahim Lumbonyi, Amurtiya Michael

“…In terms of the monetary value of the damages, sweet potato is the most affected. The study concluded that farmers should work as a team and adopt measures like fencing, scare tactics, or deterrents that will minimize significant crop losses. …”
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Species delimitation of newly collected spiders of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae) from Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China: An integrated morpholog... by Jianshuang Zhang, Tianqin Pan, He Zhang, Yuanqian Xing, Hao Yu, Yang Zhong

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A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Inorganic Fertilizer (NPK) and Organic Fertilizer (Poultry Manure) on the Sweat Potato Yield. by Mwebembezi, Obed

“…The study concluded that integrating organic and inorganic fertilizers, along with proper irrigation, could optimize sweet potato production by ensuring high yields, maintaining soil health, and minimizing pest issues. …”
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Nonfat Set Yogurt: Effect of Okra Gum and Various Starches on the Rheological, Sensory, and Storage Qualities and Wheying-Off by Ali Saleh, A. A. Mohamed, M. S. Alamri, S. Hussain, A. A. Qasem, M. A. Ibraheem, Syed Ali Shahzad

“…The selected starches include potato (PS), sweet potato (SPS), corn (CO), chickpea (CP), and Turkish beans (TB). …”
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Delivering the Nutritional Needs by Food to Food Fortification of Staples Using Underutilized Plant Species in Africa by Ernest Teye, Christabel Irene Deha, Rosemond Dadzie, Roseline Love MacArthur

“…The review revealed that fortification of major staple foods has been investigated: maize with grain amaranth, soybean, and moringa; sweet potato with cowpea, sorghum, bambara groundnut, peanut, and moringa; cassava with African yam bean, breadfruit, pigeon pea, bambara groundnut, moringa, and cowpea; and sorghum with pearl millet and green peas. …”
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Nutritional enrichment of traditional complementary foods using underutilized nutritious plant foods in sub-Saharan Africa: their nutritional potential and health benefits: A scopi... by Diriba Chewaka Tura, Tefera Belachew, Dessalegn Tamiru, Kalkidan Hassen Abate

“…Cassava enriched with pigeon pea, Bambara groundnut, moringa and cowpea; wheat with quinoa, lupine, amaranth, orange-fleshed sweet potato, groundnut, mango and spinach; oats with soybean, linseed and premix (moringa leaf powder, fenugreek); teff enriched with pea, sesame, soybean, chickpea and spinach. …”
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Nutrtional and Phytochemical Characterstics of Fruits and Vegetable Wastes as Livestock Feed: A Case Study in Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Mitiku Yohannes, Yisehak Kechero, Yilkal Tadele

“…The results showed that, highest CP values recorded from banana leaf, 15.8 ± 0.8 (%DM) followed by avocado peel (14 ± 0.8) among fruit by-products and that of highest values of vegetable components were obtained from Moringa oleifera strip (20.6 ± 1.25) sweet potato (18.5 ± 1.55), respectively. The highest ME (MJ/kg DM) contents obtained from avocado and mango by-products among fruit wastes, while that of highest values recorded for cassava and potato peel (12.2 ± 0.4) and (11.3 ± 0.1) among vegetable components, respectively. …”
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Effect of Tea Growing on Food Security in Mpungu Sub-County Kanungu District Uganda. by Natukunda, Cathbert

“…The findings here show that 97.5% of respondents agreed that tea is mainly grown in the area followed by bananas, Beans, Irish potato, sweet potato, and sorghum with the above percentages. …”
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Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Kashare Sub-County Mbarara District. by Agaba, Richard

“…A smaller proportion (9.5%) mentioned a decline in sweet potato production, while 33.3% and 14.3% of respondents pointed to decreased bean and cassava outputs, respectively. …”
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Natural antifibrosis potential of anthocyanin in Ipomoea batatas against Transforming Growth Factor beta Type II receptor by in silico ADMET and molecular docking study by Evi Lusiana, Ernawati Sinaga, Zen Hafy, Debby Handayati Harahap, Ramzi Amin, Irsan Saleh

“…Purple sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) are known to have bioactive anthocyanin compounds with numerous human therapeutic benefits. …”
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Production of a Complementary Food: Influence of Cowpea Soaking Time on the Nutritional, Antinutritional, and Antioxidant Properties of the Cassava-Cowpea-Orange-Fleshed Potato Ble... by Abiola Folakemi Olaniran, Clinton Emeka Okonkwo, Omorefosa Osarenkhoe Osemwegie, Yetunde Mary Iranloye, Yemisi Tokunbo Afolabi, Omokolade Oluwaseyi Alejolowo, Charles Obiora Nwonuma, Toluwanimi Esther Badejo

“…This study investigated the effect of cowpea soaking time (3, 6, and 9 h) on different composition ratios of cassava, cowpea, and orange-fleshed sweet potato (CCP) blends (50 : 40 : 10 (EC), 50 : 30 : 20 (FC), 50 : 20 : 30 (GC), and 50 : 50 : 0 (HC)). …”
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Evaluation of selected agricultural by-products as potential feeds for rearing edible grasshopper, Ruspolia differens (Serville) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) by Amos Acur, Geoffrey Maxwell Malinga, Philip Nyeko

“…Methods We evaluated the biology (survival, developmental duration, and adult fresh weight) of Ruspolia differens reared on eleven locally available agricultural by-products in Uganda, namely; dry maize cob, waste from a locally brewed finger millet drink, cotton seed cake, soybean hull meal, sunflower cake, pumpkin pulp, peelings of unripe banana, cassava, sweet potato, pineapple and pumpkin. Germinated finger millet was used as a control. …”
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Plant Disease Classifier: Detection of Dual-Crop Diseases Using Lightweight 2D CNN Architecture by Hasibul Islam Peyal, Md. Nahiduzzaman, Md. Abu Hanif Pramanik, Md. Khalid Syfullah, Saleh Mohammed Shahriar, Abida Sultana, Mominul Ahsan, Julfikar Haider, Amith Khandakar, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…It is, after potato and sweet potato, the most widely farmed crop on the planet. …”
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Giant Sweetpotato Bug, Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae) by Susan E. Halbert

“… A large colony of Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) was found in late June 1995 on an Asian cultivar of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) in Homestead, Florida, by Lynn D. …”
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Demand and consumption patterns of banana in Tanzania by William George

“…Cross-price elasticities show substitution effects with cassava (0.06–0.08) and sweet potatoes (0.24). Income elasticity is positive (0.040–0.070) and significant. …”
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De l’igname au manioc dans le golfe de Guinée : traite des esclaves et alimentation au royaume du Danhomè (XVIIe-XIXe siècle) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The diffusion of corn, sweet potatoes and then cassava in the agrarian systems after the arrival of Europeans thus had consequences for the dietary regimes. …”
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