About the Book: Tuber Crops
In this book, we are dealing with various vegetables having their underground
parts modified in the form of corms, tubers, tuberous roots and rhizomes to
store food materials for perennation. We could found only 31 such vegetables to
be tuberous though in certain other literature sources certain root crops such
as yam bean (Pachyrrhizus erosus), Japanese arrowroot (Pueraria lobata), etc.
are also described as tuber crops due to wrong placing though these are root
crops. Every important aspect of each and every edible tuber crop has briefly
been covered in a quite comprehensive manner apart from their photographs in
most of the