Sweet Potato

Abstract

The sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., is an important root crop supporting millions of people throughout the tropical regions of the world and recognized as world's seventh most important food crop following wheat, rice, maize, potato, barley, and cassava. Sweet potato can produce more edible energy per hectare per day than wheat, rice, or cassava, and possesses potent antioxidant, antidiabetic, and anti‐inflammatory properties while use of starch and other processed goods (e.g., alcohol, etc.) is more localized, and increasingly provides an additional source of cash for poor. Despite the fact that tremendous improvements have been made in sweet potatoes, very little progress has been made in terms of yield when compared to other crops. The major challenges conventional breeding faces are the existence of extensive inherent genetic variability, presence of cross incompatible genes, and low seed set rates. Genetic transformation using tissue culture/biotechnology is an alternative that is looked on to as a promising tool to achieve such goals. Various gene delivery systems have been used to develop transgenic sweet potato concentrating on a specific trait/character, which includes Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation, electroporation, and biolistic approaches. However, the success of transgenic effort can only be achieved by optimizing a successful regeneration protocol and careful consideration of the likely expected effects of transgenic plants on biodiversity of plants, insects, and humans.

Adding sweet potato vines improve the quality of rice straw silage

“…Sweet potato vines as ingredients, are widely used in fodder silages (Dhir et al . ; De Moura et al . ).…”

“…Sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas L.) is among the major food crops in the world and is cultivated in all tropical and subtropical regions, particularly in Asia, Africa and the Pacific (Dhir et al . ; De Moura et al . ).…”

Improved Tolerance to Various Abiotic Stresses in Transgenic Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) Expressing Spinach Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

“…As an alternative, genetic engineering offers great potential for improving the sweet potato or generating useful breeding materials with improved traits, such as increased starch content and nutritional value, virus and nematode resistance and salt tolerance, by the expression of native or foreign genes [11], [12]. Recently, we established an efficient Agrobacterium tumefaciens -mediated transformation system for several farmer-preferred cultivars of sweet potato [13], which provided a routine tool for genetic improvement via transgenesis and mediated the examination of the function of exogenous and endogenous genes in sweet potato.…”

“…Although traditional breeding has significantly contributed to trait improvement in sweet potato in the last several decades, producing a novel germplasm with desirable traits remains difficult due to the high levels of male sterility, self and interspecific incompatibility, and hexaploid nature of the sweet potato, which results in the strong segregation of hybrid progenies and the loss of many valuable traits [9] , [10] . As an alternative, genetic engineering offers great potential for improving the sweet potato or generating useful breeding materials with improved traits, such as increased starch content and nutritional value, virus and nematode resistance and salt tolerance, by the expression of native or foreign genes [11] , [12] . Recently, we established an efficient Agrobacterium tumefaciens -mediated transformation system for several farmer-preferred cultivars of sweet potato [13] , which provided a routine tool for genetic improvement via transgenesis and mediated the examination of the function of exogenous and endogenous genes in sweet potato.…”

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Raising Questions About the "Comply or Explain" Model and Targets in Canada

“…Gender may only be one attribute, yet it contributes to an individual's perspective. 23 Furthermore, gender influences experiential attributes like educational and industry experience, which also leads to a gendered perspective. 24 Strategies for nominating directors and appointing executive officers must be changed in order to reduce homogeneity in the attributes and perspectives of corporate decision-makers.…”