Potatoes postharvest /

• Main Author: Pringle, Robert, 1944- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Potatoes > Handling.; Potatoes > Storage.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Crop Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Food Composition and Quality.; Solanum tuberosum.; Metabolism.; Postharvest physiology.; Potatoes.; Storage quality.; Tubers.; Electronic books.
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This book concentrates on the essential principles of storage, grading and dispatch of potatoes. The focus is the potato tuber and all of the influences that can affect its final quality when sold. Background information such as the tuber's physical development, its metabolic processes, its sus...

Table of Contents:

• Physiology
• Harvesting and store loading systems
• Store climate
• Disease control in store
• Store design and structure
• Store ventilation
• Store refrigeration
• Store environment monitoring and control
• Store management
• Seed grading and preparation for planting
• Packhouse and processing facilities
• Quality assurance
• Marketing and costs.