Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

We all have go-to vegetables we always purchase at the market, but there is a world of produce out there to explore. One delicious but quite mysterious vegetable is the sunchoke. If you're now asking, ...

Root, tuber and banana (RT&B) crops are widely cultivated across the landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These staple food crops play a fundamental role in smallholder farming systems due to their ...

A team has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families ...

I was on the hunt for the winter pebbles, an assortment of turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips and winter radishes that some enterprising farmers at my local market sell as a mix. They look ...

It's especially helpful for growing root vegetables.

Vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) and horticultural tree crops (HTCs) play an important role in food security and income and represent significant agricultural opportunities in most countries of ...

When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of Pacific spices five hundred years ago, it was a famous miscalculation. Columbus instead made landfall in the Caribbean among the Taíno, a ...