This center is devoted to potato and sweetpotato, as well as traditional
Andean root and tuber crops.
This is an excellent overall resource for sweetpotato information.
People in the United States often use the terms yams and sweetpotatoes
to refer to different varieties of the same plant. Learn the true meaning
of these two words.
Though national consumption of sweetpotato in the United States is not
high, nevertheless, a number of varieties are consumed.
Sweetpotato research, begun by Dr.
George Washington Carver, has been conducted at Tuskegee University
for more than a century. In recent years, Tuskegee has been researching
sweetpotatoes
under a NASA (National Aeronautics and
Space Administration) contract for cultivation and consumption on the planned
international space station.
(Debate
continues in many quarters over the pros and cons of building this international
space station, the most expensive object ever to be built.)
The sweetpotato
weevil (Cylas formicarius)
The sweetpotato whitefly
(Bemisia tabaci)