Sweetpotatoes
![Craig Yencho and Mercy Kitavi work with sweet potato samples in a lab in Nairobi, Kenya.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/craig-yencho-lab_MercyKitavi_Kenya.jpg)
A Patented Winner
![The Sweet-APPS team sitting at a table](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CALSMag_SweetAPPS.png)
Sweet-APPS Yielding Sweet Success
![Modesta Abugu in a sweetpotato field](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Modesta-Abugu-sweetpotato-field.jpeg)
Modesta Abugu: Improving Sweetpotato Flavor for Nutrition Security
![someone holding sweetpotatoes](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/twocolleges.jpeg)
CALS Economist Joins the Fight to Curb the Effects of Invasive Nematode on Sweetpotatoes
![sweet potato farmer](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/farmworker-hands-sweet-potato.jpeg)
“Sweet” Research at National Sweetpotato Collaborators Group Meeting
![Daniela Jones holding and ear of corn in a corn field](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/daniela-jones-corn-crops.jpg)
Enhancing NC State’s Data-Driven, Climate-Smart Agriculture Talent Pool
![Students surrounded by large boxes of sweetpotatoes](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/asabe_sweetpotato-sale.jpg)
ASABE Students Putting on a ‘Sweet’ Fundraiser Sale
![Craig Yencho gives a presentation at a recent field day](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Yencho1.png)
Protecting Our State’s New Rural Cash Crop
![Portrait of Lina Quesada-Ocampo holding basket of sweetpotatoes in greenhouse](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lina-Quesada-Ocampo.jpg)
Quesada-Ocampo Picked for ‘40 Under 40’ Honor
![Lina Quesada and Camilo Parada examine a petri dish](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/quesada-parada.jpg)