Plant roots have several important economic uses including as food crops, medicines, spices, and sources of nutrients and organic matter for soil. Some root crops used as food include potatoes and yams, while ginseng and licorice are examples of root medicines. Black Cabbage-bark and Sindjapple roots can also provide natural pesticides. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen through root nodules, enriching the soil.

1. The Economic Aspect of
Plant Roots

2. Plant roots have
many uses it can
be;
• Food
• Root crop refers to any
edible underground
plant structure.

3. • Medicine
• Some important
root medicines.

4. • Spices
Some example of root
spices

5. Some other facts…
• There are also
leguminous plant root
that have nitrogen-
fixing root nodules are
used as green manure
crops.
• Green manure is a
type of cover
crop grown primarily
to
add nutrients and org
anic matter to the soil.

6. • Fish poison
and
insecticide
“rotenone”
are obtained
from the
roots of
Black
Cabbage-bark
Sindjapple
(Lonchocarpu
s spp.)

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