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Nonstarch polysaccharides in sweet potato
… composition of the non-starch polysaccharides in sweet potato was determined and their flatulence-inducing potential evaluated. A preparative adaptation of the AOAC enzymatic method was used to isolate the insoluble and soluble non-starch polysaccharides. The insoluble non-starch fraction was …
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Lactic Acid Production Using Sweet Potato Processing Waste
<p>Organic waste generated from industrial sweet potato canning is estimated to be 30% of incoming raw material. This waste contains carbohydrates (sugars and starch) that could be used as substrates for the production of useful compounds via fermentation (e.g. lactic acid), resulting in the …
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Performance of Nguni goats supplemented with sweet potato vines
… but crop residues like banana leaves, cassava, sweet potato vines and other indigenous crop residues not exploited may be used as a cheaper source of feed supplement. More rural emerging farmers in Northern KZN communities seem to be farming sweet potatoes which implies that the vines could be …
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Induction of Flowering in the Sweet Potato (Ipomoea Batatas, Lam.)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:49:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805445.pdf: 3403520 bytes, checksum: 5c7ec830c657619031a536271fb07f44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Molecular diversity and coat protein expression of Sweet potato leaf curl virus
Leaf curl virus diseases have been reported in sweetpotato throughout the world. One of the causal agents is Sweet potato leaf curl virus (SPLCV) which belongs to the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae). In the United States, SPLCV has been found infecting an ornamental sweetpotato and several …
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Investigating carotenoid loss after drying and storage of orange-fleshed sweet potato
Biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) is being promoted to tackle vitamin A deficiency, a serious public health problem affecting children and pregnant/lactating women in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the study was to quantify and understand the factors influencing carotenoid losses in …
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Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… acceptance of biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) using data from a choice experiment conducted in Ghana. I find that OFSP is preferred to traditional white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes as indicated by consumers' marginal willingness to pay for the three varieties. …
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Eating quality and variability in carotenoid content and profiles in winter squash and sweet potato
… Cucurbita moschata cultigens.</p><p>Among eight sweet potato cultigens (Ipomoea batatas) in this study, five orange-fleshed cultigens had increased carotenoid content at harvest, 78 to 137 mug/g FW whereas carotenoid content ranged from 0 to 25 mug/g FW in the cream and white-fleshed cultigens. …
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Response of Citrus Seedlings, Tomato, Pepper and Sweet Potato Plants to Inoculation With Endomycorrhizal Fungi
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Study on the processing technology of iced roasted sweet potato and its sensory characteristics and nutritional peculiarities
Nowadays, fresh sweet potato is greatly influenced by seasonality and unable to be consumed all year. The roast sweet potato in market is usually made by personal, so the quality, safety and nutrition cannot be guaranteed effectively. In addition, roasted sweet potato is hard to storage and has a …
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Sweet potatoes and mung bean flour as ingredients in yeast bread
… breads were prepared with three levels of mashed sweet potato pulp and of mung bean flour. Nine combinations of mashed sweet potato pulp (10, 20, 30 percent), and of mung bean flour (4, 8, 16 percent) substitutions for wheat flour were used to determine the acceptability of these enriched breads. …
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Sweet potato viruses in Uganda: identification of a new virus, a mild strain of an old virus and reversion
In 2009, a sweet potato begomovirus (sweepovirus) was detected for the first time in Uganda. An isolate was sequenced, providing the first full sequence of a sweepovirus from mainland Africa which differed from other sweepoviruses by at least 13%, discriminating this isolate as a new species, …
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Factors influencing the post-harvest quality and consumer preference of sweet potato and other products in sub-Saharan Africa
The first theme covers sweetpotato in the marketing chain from farm to consumer. In East Africa, research explored ways of improving the handling and transport of sweetpotato, shelf life and storage of fresh roots on the farms to increase incomes and food security. Transport and handling were …
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Activity of α- and β-amylase at low temperatures
… with purified enzymes and in a system with sweet potato puree for different periods of time. In the systems with purified enzymes, commercially purified swine pancreatic α-amylase and sweet potato β-amylase at 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 μg/0.5 ml concentrations were used to react with 0.5 ml of a …
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Effect of planting depth and cutting orientation on growth and yield of sweet potato (Ipomoea Batatas L.(LAM) cultivars for small scale production in Verulam
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam) is an important root crop for small scale farmers in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. However, low storage root yields in small scale farming are attributed to a number of factors including poor selection of cultivars and possibly unsuitable …
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An investigation of the drivers of sustainable market development for high-nutrient staple crops – the case of vitamin A-rich sweet potato in Zambézia, Mozambique
… that introducing biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) into the farming system and diet could alleviate VAD. It concluded that the incorporation of a marketing component in a similar intervention could spread the benefits of OFSP to a wider consumer segment and provide a greater …
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Determining Zambia’s potential for bioethanol production as a motor vehicle fuel to meet climate objectives by 2040.
… three locally produced feedstocks namely sweet potato, cassava and sugarcane. The raw data for these crops was gathered at national level. These feedstocks were quantified and converted to bioethanol using appropriate mathematical ratios. The period of assessment ranged from 2007 to 2017 …
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