Yam ( Dioscorea spp.)

Andrés, Christian; AdeOluwa, O. O.; Bhullar, Gurbir S.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-394807-6.00177-5

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“…The common yams are members of Dioscorea L, a large plant genus containing about 600 species. Yams are broadly cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America, spanning the entire globe along the so-called "yam belt" (Huber, 1998;Andres et al, 2017). Common types of cultivated yams include white yam (D. rotundata), yellow yam (D. cayenensis), water yam (D. alata), air potato (D. bulbifera), bitter yam (D. dumetorum), lesser yam (D. esculenta), and Chinese yam (D. polystachya).…”

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Fusarium Species and Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex Genotypes Associated With Yam Wilt in South-Central China

Dongzhen

Chen

et al. 2020

Front. Microbiol.

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Fusarium Species and Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex Genotypes Associated With Yam Wilt in South-Central China

Dongzhen

Chen

et al. 2020

Front. Microbiol.

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“…According to the available reports, Dioscorea rotundata thought to be the first species that has been domesticated around 5000 BC in West Africa (Andres et al, 2017). The most economically important species under this genus is Dioscorea alata that is originated from Southeast Asia; possibly Myanmar and Thailand (Orkwor et al, 1998).…”

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“…Out of the 644 species of Dioscorea (yam) genus, only a few of them are cultivated (Andres et al, 2017). It is broadly classified into four categories: (i) white yam, (ii) water yam, (iii) air potato, and (iv) bitter yam.…”

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Potentiality of Underutilized Crop Dioscorea Spp.: A Source of Nutraceutical

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Good Health and Well-being is one of the important goals in the current decade of twenty first century. The people of current generation prefer the consumption of plant sourced bioactive molecules over the modern medicines because the former has no side effects and residue free. In order to mitigate the food requirement of growing global population during the previous century, the green revolution technologies focused on fewer crops leading to negligence of several important crops; popularly known as underutilized or neglected crops. In the list of underutilized crops, Dioscorea spp. occupies significant niche as it is rich in several phytochemicals and could be grown under multiple stress conditions faced by the modern agricultural practices. Besides, it has been known as prominent member under age old practices of “traditional health care system” to treat several malaises of human being during the early date of civilization. The tubers and bulbils of the Dioscorea spp. are rich in saponins, tannin, flavonoids, sterols, polyphenols, and glycosides in addition to its higher contents of basic essential nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals etc. Further, its tubers are staple food for indigenous people of several Asian and African countries. Therefore, the Dioscorea spp. signifies as an important crop both to the next generation population as well as underprivileged class of people in the coming decade for good health wellbeing and food security. SAARC J. Agri., 17(2): 1-13 (2019)

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“…Dioscorea spp banyak ditanam didaerah tropis. Tiga spesies dioscorea menjadi makanan pokok untuk lebih dari 60 juta penduduk di lima negara Afrika Barat, dimana lebih dari 90% produksi dioscorea dunia dihasilkan ( Andres et al, 2016). Umbi dioscorea mengandung senyawa yang banyak bermanfaat.…”

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Kadar Air Kapasitas Lapang dan Bobot Jenis Tanah yang Optimal untuk Pertumbuhan dan Produksi Umbi Uwi (Dioscorea alata L)

Sulistyono

Abdillah

2017

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Food diversification is one of the ways in order to achieve national food security. One of the alternative food that has the potential to be developed is tuber of Dioscorea alata (uwi, ubi kelapa, keribang, water yam). The aim of this experiment was to determine optimum water content of field capacity and spesific weight of the tuber growing space of Dioscorea alata to produce maximum growth and tuber productivity. The experiment was arranged in Randomized Complete Block Design with five replications. The treatment of this research included without planting hole, with planting hole, husk addition as much as 50% of planting hole volume, husk and manure addition as much as 50% and 25% of panting hole volume, manure addition as much as 25% of planting hole volume. The result of this experiment shows that the treatment give significant effect on the physical characteristics of the soil and vegetative growth of plants (except plant height variable), but no significant effect in increasing the productivity of tubers. For the physical characteristics of the soil, the addition of planting hole, husks and manure has the lowest value of soil density and the highest value of soil field capacity. For the vegetative growth phase, planting in planting hole and addition of husks and manure has the highest number of leaves and the number of branches.The optimum water content of field capacity and spesific weight of the tuber growing space was 39.68 % dry weight based and 0,69 g.cm-3 respectively.

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Yam ( Dioscorea spp.)

Cited by 35 publications

References 3 publications

Fusarium Species and Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex Genotypes Associated With Yam Wilt in South-Central China

Fusarium Species and Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex Genotypes Associated With Yam Wilt in South-Central China

Potentiality of Underutilized Crop Dioscorea Spp.: A Source of Nutraceutical

Kadar Air Kapasitas Lapang dan Bobot Jenis Tanah yang Optimal untuk Pertumbuhan dan Produksi Umbi Uwi (Dioscorea alata L)

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