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Sweetpotato in Southeast Asia: Assessing the Primary Functions of a Secondary Crop

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The Southeast Asia region encompasses the Asian mainland and surrounding islands, which are east to the Indian subcontinent and south of China. As a geographic subdivision of Asia, it includes the areas historically known as Indochina and peninsular Malaysia, and the islands extending from the Philippines in the north to Indonesia in the south.

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Campilan, D. (2009). Sweetpotato in Southeast Asia: Assessing the Primary Functions of a Secondary Crop. In: Loebenstein, G., Thottappilly, G. (eds) The Sweetpotato. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9475-0_20

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