This study was carried out to analyze the nutrient composition of wild tubers belonging to Dioscorea genus of the Dioscoreaceae family consumed by the ethnic groups in the Jeypore District of Koraput region in Odisha, India. The collected tubers are significant storehouses of energy and nutrition and also, they are known to produce large quantities of energy in relatively less time than the other crops. We have selected six wild species of Dioscorea collected from Odisha among the twenty-six reported species of India, along with five locally available cultivated tuber varieties of different genera from Tamil Nadu markets for comparison. The objective of this study is to understand the major source of nutrition of the ethnic groups, who consume local plant varieties collected from the wild and also to compare them with that of commercially available cultivated varieties in the view of the prevailing biodiversity and the varied agro-climatic conditions in India.

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印度奥里萨邦族群食用的野生薯蓣属与商业栽培的块根和块茎的营养成分比较

本研究旨在分析印度奥里萨邦 Koraput 地区 Jeypore 地区各民族食用的薯蓣属薯蓣属的营养成分。收集到的块茎是能量和营养的重要仓库，而且众所周知，与其他作物相比，它们在相对较短的时间内产生大量能量。我们从印度 26 种报道的物种中选择了从奥里萨邦收集的 6 种野生薯蓣品种，以及来自泰米尔纳德邦市场的 5 种不同属的本地栽培块茎品种，以进行比较。本研究的目的是了解各民族的主要营养来源，