| 1574351 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Retail display at farmers market in Los Angeles, CA. February 1998 |
| 1574231 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Freshly harvest roots in harvesting bucket. November 1997 |
| 1574228 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Freshly harvest roots in bulk bins. November 1997 |
| 1574229 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Freshly harvest roots in bulk bins. November 1997 |
| 1574230 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Freshly harvest roots in harvesting bucket. November 1997 |
| 1574224 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Skinning occurs when roots brush up against other roots or other surfaces and should be minimized. November 1997 |
| 1574223 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato roots can get very large. These would be graded as "jumbo." |
| 1574198 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Dump tank full of sweetpotatoes. Note the amount of skinning on root surfaces. November 1997
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| 1574181 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato healed cut. Dark material near the parimeter of the cut surface is dried latex. November 1997 |
| 1572945 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotatoes are vegetatively propagated. Roots are buried and will produce sprouts. The sprouts are used as planting material for the next crop. Sweetpotato roots generally produce more sprouts from the distal end of the root. May 1997 |
| 1572944 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato sprout as it appears when pulled from below-ground root. Diseases such as scurf are vegetatively propagated in this manner. Modern production practices use "cuttings" so that below ground parts remain in the ground along with any pathogen they might harbor. May 1997 |
| 1572939 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Air temperature in a packed carton of sweetpotato measures 60 degrees F. May 1997 |
| 1572935 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Postharvest research on Rhizopus soft rot. The device on top of the root (a spring-loaded dowel) was used to make a shallow impact bruise. This type of injury makes the sweetpotato most susceptible to decay. May 1997 |
| 1572934 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotatoes in storage. Note the areas where abrasions have occurred during harvesting. May 1997 |
| 1572933 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotatoes in bulk storage. May 1997 |
| 1572927 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
The sweetpotato washing and packing process begins with dumping roots into a tank of water. May 1997? |
| 1572926 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
The sweetpotato washing and packing process begins with dumping roots into a tank of water. May 1997? |
| 1572925 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
The sweetpotato washing and packing process begins with dumping roots into a tank of water. May 1997 |
| 1572923 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Dead fruit flies on the surface of a stored sweetpotato. Fruit flies can increase dramatically during storage if rots occur. May 1997 |
| 1572922 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato root showing dried latex (brown mass from close end). The latex is natural and poses no risk to consumption, but is unsightly and can be difficult to wash off during the washing and packing process. Growers sometimes refer to this as "elephant snot." Note also the small raised spots often referred to as pimples. The cultivar is Hernandez. May 1997 |
| 1572917 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato roots sprouting during storage. May 1997 |
| 1563271 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato roots, cv. 'Pope' still attached to plant after digging with a plow (Oct77). |
| 1319044 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
New attractive sweet potato cultivar Ruddy (left) is sweet and moist and resists insects unlike the leading U.S. cultivar Beauregard. |
| 1563223 |
sweetpotato |
Ipomoea batatas |
Sweetpotato roots were covered with too much soil and rotted in the plant bed and produced no sprouts (Apr 98 |
