India (Kumaon region, western Himalayas): axillary tubers cut into pieces, steeped in water, and boiled prior to eating. Maharashtra State (Thane District): the Warli tribe eat the roasted roots.

Zanzibar (Pemba Island), Tuber is highly toxic and eating it raw or unprepared can lead to serious sickness, coma and death. To remove the poisonous compounds, it is cut into small pieces and boiled ...

Beth Peck, email A: I checked with tropical plant expert Winston Eason, who agreed with my initial guess that this is a bulbil from air potato, Dioscorea bulbifera, sometimes called tater vine.

Diosgenin, a secondary metabolite isolated from the Dioscorea spp. plant family, is an irreplaceable and ideal starting material for the synthesis of steroid hormone drugs. Dioscorea zingiberensis ...

The leaf fossil is the first of Dioscorea yams from Asia and hints at a Gondwanan origin to these plants, claim scientists. When scientists R. C. Mehrotra and Anumeha Shukla from Lucknow's Birbal ...