Genebanks have been instrumental in allowing crop scientists around the world to breed improved varieties of root and tuber ...

The creation of a National Mission on Tuber Crops (NMTC) has been proposed for mainstreaming tubers into India’s food basket and increasing productivity and farmer incomes from these often sidelined ...

A team has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families ...

People have eaten tubers since time immemorial. Indeed, a small but ardent band of anthropologists argues that cooked tubers in general played the critical role in separating humankind from the rest ...