If you need to read up on a plant health related topic, it is amazing how many free resources are available to researchers.

We recently came across this great book from Springer Nature books which is free to download and gives a lot of valuable information on tropical crops such as banana, cassava, sweet potato, and yam, as well as agriculture value creation, crop waste management, digital pest control and citizen science.

This is available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

It is an open access book describing recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their vegetative seed and bulky and perishable produce. The innovations create value, food, jobs and new sources of income while improving the wellbeing and quality of life of their users.