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Biofortification of staple crops with provitamin A (PVA) carotenoids is an innovative strategy for controlling vitamin A (VA) deficiency in low-income countries (LIC). Plant breeding programs have been successful in developing biofortified varieties of cassava, maize, and orange-fleshed sweet pot...
Sweetpotato serves as human food, animal feed and industrial raw material in the production of sugar syrups, ethanol and flour for confectionaries. It produces more food energy per unit area and unit time than any other major food crop and has higher protein, vitamin and mineral contents compared...
Sweetpotato is an important source of calories and pro-vitamin A in the developing world. However, the crop suffers major diseases resulting in significant yield losses. Field screening of sweetpotato germplasm for resistance to sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD) and Alternaria stem blight has com...
Crop ontologies have been identified under the Generation Challenge Program and at the International Potato Center (CIP) as a crucial tool for managing and analyzing crop related information. Here we report progress on applying ontological concepts on sweetpotato traits important for breeders and...
The global in-trust sweetpotato collection maintained by the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru consists of over 5,000 cultivated sweetpotato accessions maintained as clones in vitro as well as over 1,000 accessions from 67 species of Ipomoea maintained as seed populations. The clona...
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