Our garden columnist is tackling a Thanksgiving debate: what is a sweet potato and what is a yam? And which one should you ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in November 2016 and has been updated. The sweet potato evokes surprisingly strong feelings — and not just from the pro- and anti-marshmallow lobbies ...

Growing these plants next to your potatoes will help enrich the soil, keep pests away, and even enhance the flavor of your crop. Spinach is a shallow-rooted vegetable that helps to fill space in ...

In fact, most canned goods or vegetables that are labeled yams here in the United States are actually sweet potatoes in ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 by 13 feet each. One ...

Rooted in climate collaboration Pronounced “asir-eek,” the new CIP-Asiryq variety was developed using Solanum cajamarquense, ...

For centuries, African traditional healers have used gentle, soothing herbs to heal stomach ulcers while modern medicine was still learning what caused them. These time-tested African herbs that ...

The potato, a global food staple first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before its worldwide spread from the 16th century, has long presented a puzzling ...

CASSAVA and sweet potatoes. Lablab beans and water berries. Bitter gourds and sickle sennas. Elephant ears and African locusts. Some will be familiar to readers in rich countries. Others, probably not ...

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Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

NAIROBI: Lack of improved seeds, use of obsolete technology, lack of access to credit, effects of climate change and cartel-like behaviour are some of the factors that have been blamed for the East ...