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Insights to Optimize Sweet Potato Production and Transformation
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Insights to Optimize Sweet Potato Production and Transformation

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Vegetable Production Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2025) | Viewed by 444

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Amparo Rosero

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Centro de Investigación Turipaná, Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria—Agrosavia, Km 13 vía Montería, Cerete 230558, Córdoba, Colombia
Interests: breeding; diversity; physiology; crop science

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sweet potato is an important crop cultivated worldwide. Its use for human consumption and as a raw material for industrial purposes demonstrates its socioeconomic contribution in several countries. Sweet potato is a crop with high plasticity that can grow despite a changing climate, hence it becoming known as a climate-resilient crop. The purpose of this Special Issue is to contribute to the compilation and dissemination of new knowledge, findings on the breeding, physiology, genetics, crop science, biotechnology, postharvest and nutritional quality of this crop, and provide valuable insights and technologies to address the challenges related to the optimization of sweet potato production and transformation. In this Special Issue “Insights to Optimize Sweet Potato Production and Transformation” of the journal Horticulture, we invite the scientific community to share their research findings on sweet potato that address to need to resolve the current bottlenecks in sweet potato crop transformation.

Dr. Amparo Rosero
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • breeding and genetics
  • characterization
  • nutritional quality
  • postharvest
  • crop science and physiology
  • biotechnology

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Projected Shifts in Colombian Sweet Potato Germplasm Under Climate Change
by Felipe López-Hernández, Maria Gladis Rosero-Alpala, Amparo Rosero and Andrés J. Cortés
Horticulturae 2025, 11(9), 1080; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae11091080 - 8 Sep 2025
Abstract
Extreme climate events—such as heatwaves, floods, and droughts—are increasingly affecting ecosystems, with the global average temperature projected to rise by up to 3 °C (IPCC, 2023) due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. These changes pose critical challenges to food security, as evidenced by [...] Read more.
Extreme climate events—such as heatwaves, floods, and droughts—are increasingly affecting ecosystems, with the global average temperature projected to rise by up to 3 °C (IPCC, 2023) due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. These changes pose critical challenges to food security, as evidenced by 733 million people facing hunger in 2024. In response, crop modeling considering different climate change scenarios has become a valuable tool to guide the development of climate-resilient agricultural strategies. Despite its nutritional importance and capacity to thrive across diverse environments, Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato) remains understudied in terms of potential spatial distribution forecasting, particularly in regions of high agrobiodiversity such as northwestern South America. Therefore, in this study we modeled the projected distribution of wild and landrace sweet potato genepools in the northern Andes under four future timeframes using seven machine learning algorithms. Our results predicted a 50% reduction in the climatically suitable range for the wild genepool by 2081, coupled with an average altitudinal shift from 1537 to 2216 m above sea level (a.s.l.). For landraces, a 36% reduction was projected by 2080, with a shift from 62 to 1995 m a.s.l. By the end of the century, suitable zones for both wild and cultivated genepools are expected to converge in high-altitude regions such as the Colombian Massif, with additional remnants of wild populations near the mountain range of Farallones de Cali. This modeling approach provides essential insights into the spatial dynamics of I. batatas under climate change, highlighting the need for ex situ conservation planning in vulnerable regions as well as assisted migration to more suitable areas. Future research should integrate edaphic and biotic interaction data to better approach the realized niche of the species and understand potential responses under a niche conservatism assumption, as well as genomic data to account for the species’ intrinsic adaptative potential, overall informing conservation, germplasm mobilization, and pre-breeding strategies that may ultimately secure the role of sweet potato in resilient food systems. Full article
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