Cocoyam [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] also known as taro is regarded as an important
staple crop in the Pacific Islands, Asia and Africa. But, Africa has been unpopular in the taro …

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a root crop that remains largely underutilized and undervalued
despite its abundance and affordability. In comparison to other root vegetables, such as …

Recently, plant essential oils (EOs) have attracted special attention in plant disease control
and food preservation. Since ancient times, essential oils extracted from plants have …

A characteristic feature of eukaryote and prokaryote genomes is the co-occurrence of
nucleotide substitution and insertion/deletion (indel) mutations. Although similar …

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is one of the traditional crops with enormous nutritional and
pharmaceutical potential as compared to the other tuber crops. It is evident from the …

Taro is an ancient nutritional and medicinal crop woven into the fabric of the socio-economic
life of those living in the tropics and sub-tropics. However, West Africa (WA), which has been …

Jujube (family Rhamnaceae) is an important economic fruit tree in China. In this study, we
reported 26 chloroplast (cp) sequences of jujube using Illumina paired-end sequencing. The …

Abstract In his 1959 book, Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History, George P. Murdock
suggested that a Malaysian complex of crops dispersed to Africa in ancient times across the …

Abstract Background Colocasia gigantea, Caladium bicolor and Xanthosoma sagittifolium
are three worldwide famous ornamental and/or vegetable plants in the Araceae family, these …

Archaeobotanical evidence for the exploitation of vegetatively propagated underground
storage organs (USOs) in the tropical regions of Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific is …