Repeated autoclaving–cooling modification of purple yam starch improved several physicochemical, barrier, mechanical, and ...

Ube (Dioscorea alata), a culturally significant and economically valuable crop in the Philippines, faces a key bottleneck in scaling production because of its reliance on tubers as planting material.

India (Madras Presidency): cooked tubers eaten. (Maharashtra [Raigad district]: tubers and bulbils eaten raw after cleaning. Samoa: cooked roots eaten. Tanzania: unspecified part [tuber?] eaten, in ...

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