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Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives
Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) and NC State Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato (GT4SP) are part of an exciting venture that is working to...New tools to harvest better Sweetpotatoes
In a traditional African setting, we say that time waits for no man and doesn’t spare the women either.At exactly 5:30 a.m. in East Africa,...Transcriptomic analysis of sweetpotato under dehydration stress identifies candidate genes for drought tolerance
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam.) is an important subsistence crop in Sub‐ Saharan Africa, yet as for many crops, yield can be severely impacted...
Sweetpotato Weevils
Cylas formicarius, the sweet potato weevil, is a species of sweet potato weevil in the family of beetles known as Brentidae.It is found in Africa,...
World Food Prize Awarded in Des Moines
Credit: Mick Kulikowski Two NC State alumni are among the four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize, one of the most important and coveted...