Using GIS-Based tools and distribution modeling to determine sweetpotato germplasm exploration and documentation priorities in sub-Saharan Africa

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1377-1381

  Villordon, Arthur ^a   Njuguna, Wambui ^b   Gichuki, Simon ^c   Ndolo, Philip ^c   Kulembeka, Heneriko ^d   Jeremiah, Simon C ^d   LaBonte, Don ^a   Yada, Bernard ^e   Tukamuhabwa, Phinehas ^e   Mwanga, Robert O M ^f  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d Agricultural Research Institute Ukiriguru   (Tanzania)

^e MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^f Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Ipomoea batatas; Model comparison

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

GERMPLASM; IPOMOEA BATATAS; SWEETPOTATOS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

FARM CROPS; GIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; VEGETABLES;

IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 33749249771     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.6.1377     Document Type: Article

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