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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.There is an increasing risk of drought and salinisation of soil and groundwater globally, including in Pacific Island countries such as Tonga. Irrigating crops with slightly saline water, such as that produced by emerging desalination technologies, could help to alleviate droughts.
Harry Myrans +9 more
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NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION OF DIOSCOREA HISPIDA FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AROUND LEUSER ECOSYSTEM AREA
Jurnal Natural, 2018 Proximate analysis of Dioscorea hispida tubers, collected from five locations around Leuser ecosystem in Aceh Province, showed variations amongst samples.
Sitti Saleha +5 more
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Relative efficiency of positive selection and tissue culture for generating pathogen-free planting materials of yam (Dioscorea spp.) [PDF]
, 2017 Open Access JournalYams are staples in West Africa. They are propagated from tubers in an informal seed system. This encourages a build-up of diseases, and necessitates the rapid development of a formal seed system where certified seeds are functional ...
Aighewi, B.A. +6 more
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Therapeutic potential of natural products in cancer immunotherapy: Advances and challenges
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.This review systematically outlines the mechanisms underlying tumour immunotherapy resistance and elucidates the role of natural products in enhancing therapeutic efficacy as immunomodulatory adjuvants. Abstract Immunotherapy has emerged as a clinically pivotal approach in cancer treatment, but its application remains limited to a small subset of ...
Rao Hu +6 more
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Yam (Dioscorea spp.) production trends in Cameroon: A review [PDF]
African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2019 Yam (Dioscorea spp.) cultivation has the potentials to greatly contribute to poverty alleviation and food security, in Cameroon. The full production potentials of yams have not been exploited, leaving Cameroon with an annual production of 648,407 metric tons (MT) at the sixth position, among the six countries of the West African yam zone, with 67.3 ...
Nkendem Azeteh Ignatius +4 more
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Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2014 El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar in vitro la actividad antimicrobiana del extracto de hojas de Mascagnia macrodena (DC) Mied, sobre cepas del hongo del género Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, causante de la enfermedad de la antracnosis, en ...
Alexander Pérez-C. +2 more
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Agrisost, 2020 Contexto: Las pérdidas de tubérculos de ñame durante la cosecha y su almacenamiento pueden ser significativas, sino existe un manejo adecuado de estas etapas. Objetivo: La investigación tuvo como objetivo reducir las pérdidas de tubérculos comerciales
Misterbino Borges García +2 more
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Do yams (Dioscorea spp.) host endogenous viral sequences ? [PDF]
, 2011 Yams (Dioscoreae sp) are important food commodities in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific where they play a key role in food security. Yams are vegetatively propagated crops.
Bandou, Eric +4 more
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Genome Editing in Root and Tuber Crop Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT Precision genome editing, particularly using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR‐associated protein 9 (Cas9), is advancing crop improvement by enabling targeted and efficient genetic modifications. Root and tuber crops such as potato, cassava, sweet potato, and yam are vital for global food and nutritional
Himanshu Saini +8 more
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Assessment and characterization of the genetic diversity of viruses infecting cultivated yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Haïti [PDF]
, 2013 Several viral species are known to infect yams (Dioscorea spp.) and to generate important yield losses on this vegetative propagated crop. Within the framework of the DEVAG project (Caribbean network for the development of agroecological horticultural ...
Filloux, Denis +4 more
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