List price   € 69     This title is available both in print and ActaHort CD-rom format Convener   A.S. bin Abd Rahman  Editor   S.L. Tan  Publication date   28 February 2006  ISBN   978-90-66053-87-8  ISSN   0567-7572  Number of articles   34  Volumes   1  Place   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  Online articles: R&D COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY - THE JAPANESE SWEETPOTATO STORY (K. Komaki, O. Yamakawa) SWEETPOTATO PRODUCTS IN A MODERN WORLD: THE NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE (S.L. Lewthwaite) LINKING SMALL-SCALE CASSAVA AND SWEETPOTATO FARMERS TO GROWTH MARKETS: EXPERIENCES, LESSONS AND CHALLENGES (R. Best, A. Westby, B. Ospina) THE ROLE OF THE KAWAGOE FRIENDS OF SWEETPOTATO IN POPULARIZING THE CROP IN JAPAN (B. Duell) NEW SWEETPOTATO CULTIVAR ´QUICK SWEET´ HAVING LOW GELATINIZATION TEMPERATURE AND ALTERED STARCH STRUCTURE (K. Katayama, S. Tamiva, T. Kuranouchi, K. Komaki, M. Nakatani) DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH-VALUE CASSAVA CLONES (H. Ceballos, M. Fregene, Z. Lentini, T. Sanchez, Y.I. Puentes, J.C. Pérez, A. Rosero, A.P. Tofino) THE EFFECT OF MAJOR VIRUSES AND VIRUS-FREE PLANTING MATERIALS ON SWEETPOTATO ROOT YIELD IN CHINA (Z. Li-ming, W. Qing-mei, M. Dai-fu, W. Yi) WORKING WITH FARMERS: THE KEY TO ACHIEVING ADOPTION OF MORE SUSTAINABLE CASSAVA PRODUCTION PRACTICES ON SLOPING LAND IN ASIA (R.H. Howeler, W. Watananonta, W. Wongkasem, K. Klakhaeng, N.N. Tran) RECENT ADVANCES IN DRYING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CARROT AND SWEETPOTATO (S. Devahastin, P. Suvarnakuta, A.S. Mujumdar) FLAVOR - THE KEY TO SWEETPOTATO CONSUMPTION (S.J. Kays) NUTRITIONAL VALUE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF SWEETPOTATO LEAVES (M. Yoshimoto, R. Kurata, S. Okuno, K. Ishiguro, O. Yamakawa, M. Tsubata, S. Mori, K. Takagaki) SWEETPOTATO FOR THE PRODUCTION OF NUTRITIOUS FOOD PRODUCTS (O. Salma, I. Zaidah) VARIOUS FORMS OF UTILIZATION AND BREEDING OF SWEETPOTATO IN KOREA (J.S. Lee, H.S. Kim, M.N. Chung, Y.S. Ahn, B.C. Jeong, J.K. Bang) USE OF ENSILED SWEETPOTATO ROOTS AND VINES FOR PIG FEED IN VIETNAM (M.T. Hoanh, D. Peters, N.T. Tinh) TRANSGENIC SWEETPOTATO WITH AMYLOSE-FREE STARCH (T. Shimada, M. Otani, T. Hamada, K.S. Kim, Y. Takahata, K. Katayama, K. Kitahara, T. Suganuma) BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS FROM CASSAVA STARCH (K. Sriroth, K. Sangseethong) INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN THE VALUE ADDITION OF SWEETPOTATO AND CASSAVA FOR MINI AGRI-BUSINESSES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (G. Padmaja, S.N. Moorthy, S.K. Nanda, M.S. Sajeev) A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF DIVERSITY AMONG EAST AFRICAN SWEETPOTATO LANDRACES USING MORPHOLOGICAL AND SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEATS (SSR) MARKERS (V. Gichuru, V. Aritua, G.W. Lubega, R. Edema, E. Adipala, P.R. Rubaihayo) SELECTION OF SWEETPOTATO CLONES WITH HIGH ANTHOCYANIN CONTENT IN INDONESIA (M. Jusuf, Y. Hilman, E. Ginting, A. Setiawan) INDUCTION OF MUTATIONS IN SWEETPOTATO PLANTS BY HEAVY-ION BEAM IRRADIATION (M. Otani, H. Saito, T. Abe, T. Shimada) CHARACTERISTICS AND DIVERSITY IN SWEETPOTATO-INFECTING VIRUSES IN AFRICA (V. Aritua, E. Adipala) ECOLOGY-BASED INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL IN INDIA (M.S. Palaniswami, S. Chattopadhyay) MANAGING SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL (CYLAS FORMICARIUS FABRICIUS) IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA, BY SOME CHEMICALS, BIOPRODUCTS AND SEX PHEROMONE TRAPS (J. Tarafdar, M.A. Sarkar) OCCURRENCE AND INTRA-SPECIFIC VARIATION OF SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL (BRENTIDAE: COLEOPTERA) IN RELATION TO ITS POTENTIAL SPREAD IN SOUTHERN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (L.E. Jackai, B. Sosinski, D.M. Jackson, K.A. Sorenson, C.K. Bonsi, A. Addo-Bediako, R. Ali, B. Tameru, F. Quarcoo, M.N. Alvarez) SWEETPOTATO NODAL CULTURE, PLANTLET GROWTH UNDER PHOTOMIXOTROPHIC CONDITIONS AND CONFIRMATION OF CYTOGENETIC STABILITY (D.T.T. Giang, M. Tanaka, J.A. Teixeira da Silva) COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES OF SWEETPOTATO AS INFLUENCED BY CULTIVAR, HARVEST DATE AND COOKING (A. Chattopadhyay, I. Chakraborty, S.K. Mukhopadhyay, P.R. Kumar, H. Sen) RESPONSE OF SWEETPOTATO (IPOMOEA BATATAS) TO APPLICATION OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZERS IN THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS OF TANZANIA (S.K. Sebastiani, A. Mgonja, F. Urio, T. Ndondi) EFFECT OF METHODS OF LAND PREPARATION ON THE YIELDS OF FOUR CASSAVA CULTIVARS IN THAILAND (W. Watananonta, S. Tangakul, S. Katong, P. Phetprapi, S. Jantawat, N. Samuthong, R.H. Howeler) THIN-LAYER DRYING OF CASSAVA CHIPS AND GRATES (D.L.S. Tan, J.H. Perez, L.M. Diamante) RECENT RESEARCH ON SWEETPOTATO AND CASSAVA IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (R.M. Bourke) PRODUCTION OF FROZEN FRENCH FRY-TYPE PRODUCTS FROM SWEETPOTATO GROWN IN THAILAND (S. Reungmaneepaitoon, N. Poolperm, C. Jariyavattanavijit , C. Teangpook) CONTENT OF AN EYE-PROTECTIVE NUTRIENT LUTEIN IN SWEETPOTATO LEAVES (K. Ishiguro, M. Yoshimoto) PRODUCTION AND MARKET POTENTIAL OF SWEETPOTATO PICKLES (J.D. Tan, E.E. Forio, L.S. Estoy) ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE-FREE PHOSPHATASE FROM CASSAVA LEAVES (S.C. Tham, S.H. Lim, H.H. Yeoh)