history of a crop that is possibly one of the oldest cultivated food plants known to humankind.
Botanical, ecological, genetic, and ethnographic approaches have been combined in order
to investigate the history of taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott. It is only through such an
integrated approach that certain key questions can be addressed. On the Trail of Taro
reproduces a range of previous work that has been inaccessible and scattered, though …