African tubers are a staple in several traditional diets and have recently gained attention for their health benefits, ...

One delicious but quite mysterious vegetable is the sunchoke. If you're now asking, "What is a sunchoke?" you’re not alone. This unassuming root vegetable is often mistaken for similar-looking roots ...

Prune in the spring or fall instead. Root pruning is not appropriate for succulents, cacti, and plants with tubers, bulbs, ...

Sweet potatoes are grown by planting root sprouts called “slips ... Regular potatoes are tubers which is a different kind of plant structure. Sweet potatoes seem to sprout under just ...

Sunchoke, also called Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) is a perennial plant and a native North American root vegetable that is now cultivated on five continents. It is part of the ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...

root tubers, fruits, spices, nuts and oil seeds, fish and fish products, milk and milk products and other flesh. These are significant contributors to the daily requirements of minerals like iron ...

The Northern Philippine Root Crops Research and Training Center (NPRCRTC) at Benguet State University is leveraging ...