African-inspired plant-based meals provide a rich palette of flavors and nutrients, placing emphasis on grains, legumes, ...

As with any fertilizer, potato water is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Stick with plain water to avoid stressing these ...

The plants looked vigorous but not particularly special. And yet their genetic make-up, potato breeders say, is something extraordinary.

Research in Britain, South Africa and the U.S. is under way to reveal the properties of this remarkable plant known as the African potato.

Low says their programme in Mozambique concentrates on breeding of orange-fleshed sweet potato drought-tolerant varieties that are now in use in many countries. “Sweet potato, in fact, is known in ...

Medicinal plants most popularly traded in South Africa include buchu, bitter aloe, African wormwood, honeybush, devil’s claw, hoodia, African potato, fever tea, African geranium, African ginger ...

The results of the trials with African potato in HIV/AIDS were published awhile ago and the researchers concluded that the African potato plant does not have a positive effect. In fact, the trial was ...

To engineer the potato, Meacham-Hensold and her colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focused on an inconvenient heat-triggered process in most plants called photorespiration ...

I have multiple sclerosis and was told that african potato and glyconutrients would help. Is this true? I don't want to just use anything without finding out more. Answer::Dear Zet I am not in favour ...

The blossoms of few plants – if any – are as alluring to butterflies and hummingbirds as those of pentas (P. lanceolata), a bushy, evergreen perennial. Indeed, even diehard native plant ...

Farmers usually grow maize for export, but Maru says tuber crops such as sweet potato have “characteristics [that can help] them to deal with climate stresses” — such as an unusually ...