Resources Tagged: Roots

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  1. In-ground Irrigation and Fertirrigation Irrigation System in the Hybrid Eucalyptus grancam

    Abstract, As the demand for products from timberlands has been increasing, the genera Eucalyptus has highlighted for its yield potential and also due to its great adaptation to Brazilian soils, which are in general moderately acid. Therefore, the aim was to evaluate the growth of the hybrid...
    Agroforestry Roots Irrigation

  2. Ipomoea batatas - Sweet Potato

    Edible Portion: Tuber, Root, Leaves, Vegetable This is a root crop which produces long creeping vines. The leaves are carried singly along the vine. Leaves can vary considerably from divided like fingers on a hand to being entire and rounded or heart shaped. At the end of the vine, trumpet shaped...
    Plant Information FPI Tubers Roots and Tubers Roots Starchy Staples Sweet Potato Vegetables Edible Leaves

  3. Colocasia esculenta - Taro

    Edible Portion:Corm, Leaves, Stalks, Vegetable, Root, Flowers This plant has large flat leaves on the end of upright leaf stalks. It grows up to 1 m high. The leaf stalk or petiole joins the leaf towards the centre of the leaf. The leaves are 20-50 cm long. Near the ground a thickened rounded...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Roots Vegetables Edible Leaves Starchy Staples Taro

  4. Bean Root Architecture

    2010-12-20 Evaluating the Underground Foundation Roots explore the soil for water and nutrients providing the foundation for growth and development. Understanding how root traits influence water and nutrient uptake can be important for crop varietal selection and improvement. Presenter :Katy Barlow,...
    Roots Bean Root Architec...

  5. Tree Roots: Facts and Fallacies

    Abstract, Plant roots can grow anywhere-in the soil, on the surface of the soil, in the water, and even in the air. Except for the first formed roots that respond positively to gravity, most roots do not grow toward anything or in any particular direction. Root growth is essentially opportunistic...
    Agroforestry Roots Trees

  6. Roots, tubers, plantains, and bananas in human nutrition.

    Key Resource This book provides and extensive overview of all aspects of these much-neglected crops, ranging from their history, popularization and production to their nutritional value and potential toxcity.
    Tubers Roots Plantains Bananas

  7. Understanding Roots Discover How to Make You Garden Flourish

    Understanding Rootsuncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground―the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet. Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to...
    Compost Fertilization Roots Root Growth Root Systems

  8. Psophocarpus tetragonolobus - Winged Bean

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Pods, Leaves, Flowers, Roots, Vegetable A climbing perennial bean up to 3 or 4 m tall. It can re-grow each year from the fattened roots. The stems twine around supportsor trail over the ground. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaf stalks are long. The leaflets are 8-15 cm...
    Legume Varieties Legumes Legumes as Food Plant Information FPI Vegetables Roots Edible Flowers Edible Pods Edible Seeds Psophocarpus tetra... Winged Bean

  9. Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Comb Fringe Grass

    Edible Portion:Seeds, Cereal, Rhizome, Root An annual grass. The stems are slender. They can lie along the ground. These can form roots at the nodes. They can have runners and form mats. It is 15-60 cm high. The edges of the leaf sheaths have small hairs. The leaf blades are flat and 5-20 cm long...
    Annuals Roots Rhizobium Cereals Edible Seeds Grasses Comb Fringe Grass Plant Information FPI Starchy Staples

  10. Dolichos trilobus - Japanese Arrowroot

    Edible Portion: Tubers, Roots, Seeds A bean plant. It is a twining herb. It keeps growing from year to year from root tubers. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets.The leaf stalks are 2-3 cm long. The leaflets are 4 sided and 2-6 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The flowering shoots are in the axilsof...
    Edible Seeds Roots Tubers Arrowroot Starchy Staples Japanese Arrowroot