[HTML][HTML] Nutrient-dense orange-fleshed sweetpotato: advances in drought-tolerance breeding and understanding of management practices for sustainable next …

JW Low, R Ortiz, E Vandamme, M Andrade… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Almost half of children< 5 years old living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffer from vitamin A
deficiency and 60% suffer from iron deficiency. Thus, there has been a strong commitment to …

Seventy years of sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas L. (LAM)] research in South Africa

SM Laurie, J Mulabisana, R Sutherland… - Crop …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations puts
forward a transformational vision to cope with food security, nutrition, and health challenges …

[HTML][HTML] The chemical, rheological, and sensorial characteristics of Arabic bread prepared from wheat-orange sweet potatoes flour or peel

HO Elkatry, HS El-Beltagi, KMA Ramadan, AR Ahmed… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current study investigates the feasibility of preparing Arabic bread from wheat flour,
sweet potato flour, or peeled sweet potatoes based on the nutritional values, technological …

Drip irrigation provides a trade-off between yield and nutritional quality of tomato in the solar greenhouse

B Li, V Wim, MK Shukla, T Du - Agricultural Water Management, 2021 - Elsevier
To address the twin issues of food and nutrition security, the focus of agricultural production
should be shifted from biomass productivity to nutritional gains. The objectives of this study …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Methyl jasmonate treatment on primary and secondary metabolites and antioxidant capacity of the substrate and hydroponically grown chinese …

C Wang, J Zhang, J Lv, J Li, Y Gao, BE Patience… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hydroponic culture has become a commercial planting model for leafy vegetables, herbs,
and other plants with medicinal value. Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is involved in primary and …

Neural network and adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference system modeling of the hot air‐drying process of orange‐fleshed sweet potato

CE Okonkwo, AF Olaniran, AJ Adeyi… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The primary objective of this study is to determine the hot air drying characteristics and
nutritional quality of orange‐fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in a convective dryer. Three …

Sustainable Nonfarm Approaches to Achieve Zero Hunger and Its Unveiled Reality

A Ashfaq, K Osama, O Yousuf… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Millions of people worldwide are deprived of sufficient, safe, and nutritious food required for
an everyday and healthy life. The hunger crisis is worsening over time, even though many …

[HTML][HTML] An evaluation of phenolic compounds, carotenoids, and antioxidant properties in leaves of South African cultivars, Peruvian 199062.1 and USA's Beauregard

CJ Phahlane, SM Laurie, T Shoko, VE Manhivi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this study, leaves of sweet potato cultivars from South Africa (“Ndou,”“Bophelo,”“Monate,”
and “Blesbok”),“Beauregard,” a sweet potato cultivar from the USA, and a Peruvian cultivar …

Estimating evapotranspiration and determining crop coefficients of irrigated sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) grown in a semi-arid climate

NE Mulovhedzi, NA Araya, MG Mengistu… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate quantification of crop water use or evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial in agriculture
for improved irrigation scheduling and water resource planning across a wide range of …

Benchmarking nutritional water productivity of twenty vegetables-A review

MK Nyathi, T Mabhaudhi, GE Van Halsema… - Agricultural Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
Traditional vegetables are piloted as champion species for sub-Saharan Africa, a region
experiencing high levels of nutritional food insecurity and water scarcity. The important …