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Root and Tuber Crops (625 words) |
 | The term root and tuber crops is a very general "catch-all" for a wide cross-section of subterranean storage organs of which there are approximately 38 root, 23 tuber, 14 rhizome, 11 corm and 10 bulb crops. |
| Roots and tubers comprised significant components of the diet and had the advantage for hunter-gatherer societies in that they were available over extended periods of time due to their ability to be left in situ until needed. |
| With the advent of agriculture, cultivated root and tuber crops became increasingly critical sources of food with the potato, cassava and sweetpotato representing the 3 |
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Blackleg, Aerial Stem Rot, and Tuber Soft Rot of Potato, HYG-3106-95 (959 words) |
| Blackleg, aerial stem rot, and tuber soft rot are all similar diseases caused by several types of soft-rot bacteria. |
| Blackleg and tuber soft rot occur wherever potatoes are grown. |
| Potato tubers with soft rot have tissues that are very soft and watery, and have a slightly granular consistency. |
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