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Comparison of nutrient composition of wild Dioscorea species consumed by ethnic groups of Odisha in India with commercially cultivated roots and tubers

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Title Comparison of nutrient composition of wild Dioscorea species consumed by ethnic groups of Odisha in India with commercially cultivated roots and tubers
 
Creator T S, Charupriya
K, Geethanjali
S, Kauser
Nelson, Ann Raeboline Lincy Eliazer
Ravichandran, Kavitha
Manjula, C
Antony, Usha
 
Subject Cultivated varieties
Dioscorea
Ethnic groups
Nutrition profile
Tubers
Total dietary fiber
 
Description 799-802
This study was carried out to analyze the nutrient composition of wild tubers belonging to Dioscorea genus of the
Dioscoreaceae family consumed by the ethnic groups in the Jeypore District of Koraput region in Odisha, India. The
collected tubers are significant storehouses of energy and nutrition and also, they are known to produce large quantities of
energy in relatively less time than the other crops. We have selected six wild species of Dioscorea collected from Odisha
among the twenty-six reported species of India, along with five locally available cultivated tuber varieties of different genera
from Tamil Nadu markets for comparison. The objective of this study is to understand the major source of nutrition
of the ethnic groups, who consume local plant varieties collected from the wild and also to compare them with
that of commercially available cultivated varieties in the view of the prevailing biodiversity and the varied agro-climatic
conditions in India.
 
Date 2021-08-06T06:35:07Z
2021-08-06T06:35:07Z
2021-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/57871
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.20(3) [July 2021]