Root Crops

• Diaprepes Root Weevil
  
  The Diaprepes root weevil, Diaprepes abbreviatus, is a major pest of citrus and many other commercial crops grown in Florida including numerous ornamental plants and root crops. Diaprepes root weevil Fig. 1 is a native of the Caribbean Islands and wa ...
  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN147

• Specialty Crops Program
  
  The Specialty Crops Program at Colorado State University aims to help growers master production systems, and explore and develop market opportunities for their specialty crops. Included in this class of specialty crops are vegetable, nursery, fruit, ...
  http://www.specialtycrops.colostate.edu/

• Vegetable Cover Crops
  
  Cover crops are crops grown to improve the farming system. Cover crops can improve the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soil, supply nitrogen, reduce leaching of nutrients and pesticides, reduce erosion, mitigate damage from plant ...
  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/document_hs387

• Advancement of Industrial Crops
  
  Encourage and promote the activities of those involved in the production, processing, development, and commercialization of industrial crops and products derived from industrial crops. Educate and inform our members and others through national and in ...
  http://www.aaic.org/

• New Crops to Arid and Saline Zones
  
  Describes potential new crops, and lost crops, for arid and saline areas, exchanged and field tested by two agricultural environmental schools in Israel and Morocco. ...
  http://desertagriculture.org/

• Big Island Fuel Crops
  
  At the Big Island Fuel Crops Project we are committed to the development of the biofuels industry in Hawaii and around the globe. We will be looking at several different crops that have been identified as excellent biofuel sources and others that hav ...
  http://bigislandfuelcrops.com/

• Alternative Field Crops
  
  This Alternative Field Crops Manual addresses the need for detailed information on the production of a number of agronomic crops adapted to the upper Midwest. Our intent is to provide county extension agents and others in educational roles a concise, ...
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/index.html

• Industrial Crops
  
  Industrial Crops and Products, an International Journal, publishes academic and industrial research on industrial nonfood crops and products, containing both croporiented and productoriented research papers a platform where agricultural research mee ...
  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/522825/descrip...

• Temperate Industrial and Fiber Crops
  
  Successful temperate new crops must either fit well into the rotation of established food, feed, or fiber crops, provide a product that is relatively more valuable than the current crop, or be better suited to growing on a given area. Proximity of gr ...
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-060.html

• The Sugar Beet Root Aphid
  
  The sugar beet root aphid Pemphigus betae Doane, attacks sugar beets in Western Canada and sucks the juice from the roots. The insect also infests table beets, swiss chard, and such weeds as lambsquarters. The sugar beet root aphid sucks the sap from ...
  http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex726