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SUGARBEET [2 records]

Record 1 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Industrial Crops
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Four distinct types [of beets] are cultivated for four different purposes: (1) the garden beet [as] a garden vegetable; (2) the sugar beet, a major source of sugar: (3) the mangel-wurzel, or mangold, a succulent feed for livestock; and (4) the leaf beet, or Swiss chard, for its leaves, which may be eaten or used as a seasoning. [The] sugar beet, commercially the most important type, [accounts] for about a third of the world's sugar production ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des plantes industrielles
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

La betterave industrielle. La culture de la betterave à sucre débuta en France en 1811, lorsqu'un décret impérial ordonna que [des hectares] lui soient consacrés afin de pallier les effets du blocus anglais qui entravait l'arrivage du sucre de canne en provenance des Antilles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de plantas industriales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Es una planta de la familia de las Quenopodiáceas (orden Centrospermae) y deriva de la "Beta Marítima", especie originaria del litoral mediterráneo.

CONT

La remolacha azucarera durante el primer año desarrolla una gruesa raíz napiforme y una roseta de hojas; durante el segundo, emite una inflorescencia copiosamente ramificada, en panículo y puede pasar de un metro. [...] Aunque el principal aprovechamiento del cultivo de la remolacha sea la producción de azúcar, también se obtienen otros subproductos [...] como son las melazas y las pulpas.

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Record 2 2003-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

e.g. sugar beet culture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Relatif à la betterave.

CONT

Matériel betteravier.

Spanish

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