"Difficult Sweet Potato Road" - South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences made an important breakthrough in the research on the genetic basis of sweet potato insect resistance
Sweet potatoes ( Ipomoea batatas L . ) are an important cash crop in the world , and China is the world ' s largest producer , consumer , and exporter of sweet potatoes , accounting for more than 60% of the world ' s total production .Sweet potato weevils are the most harmful pests in sweet potato cultivation and are also important international quarantine pests , which cause great harm to sweet potatoes during planting and tuber storage by biting leaves and tubers .
Mar 03, 2023