Beta vulgaris L. (sugar beet, table beet, mangel) is subject to a disease known as blackroot. Buchholtz and Meredith (1944:488) refer to the condition as tiprot, and earlier, Murphy (1927) called it rootburn of beets. Both Byford and Prince (1976) and W. C. Moore (1959) discussed the disease as “black leg.” In 1949(b) Ernould demonstrated that blackroot was not the same pathological condition a...

Communities are concerned with the role of durable pesticides and their carry over effect in food chains. Accordingly, the recognition and measurement of chemical compounds in food, environment and living bodies is necessary. In this study, which dated from October 2010 to March 2011, deltamethrin toxin residues in sugar beets were investigated in the cities of Isfahan province including: Isfah...

Commercial sugarbeet yields range between 50 and 100 t clean beets/ha, with sugar concentrations of 17 to 18% on fresh weight (8 to 18 t sugar/ha; Milford, 2006). For 2010, beet yields in the U.S. averaged 62.2 t/ha. However, in the Imperial Valley (predominant cattle feeding region for the state of California), clean beet yields averaged 98.8 t/ha (USDA, 2010); 9 Imperial Valley beet growers t...

Sugar beets are grown for sugar in 22 States—Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Wyoming, and California. They are grown in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, and Oregon for seed. Almost 20 percent of the national sugar requirem.ent...