The potato : botany, production and uses /

• Other Authors: Navarre, Roy, (Editor), Pavek, Mark J., (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Subjects: Potatoes.; Marketing and Distribution.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Morphology and Structure.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Host Resistance and Immunity.; Crop Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Food Composition and Quality.; Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Biotechnology.; Breeding programmes.; Crop production.; Crop quality.; Crop yield.; Cultivars.; Disease resistance.; Gene mapping.; Genomics.; Insect pests.; Literature reviews.; Marketing.; Nutritive value.; Pest management.; Pest resistance.; Plant anatomy.; Plant breeding methods.; Plant development.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Plant physiology.; Storage.
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 A gradual increase in global potato production will help address future food supply and nutrition issues, especially when combined with modern breeding techniques. The major focus of many potato breeding programmes is to improve yield and quality while using fewer production resources, such as water, fertilizer, and land, than current varieties. These programmes are also focused on identifying varieties with resistance to major diseases and insect pests in order to reduce the need for pesticides, thereby maintaining or improving the health of the environment. Advances in marker-assisted selection, gene mapping, and genomics have allowed breeders to identify desirable and undesirable traits in new cultivars more quickly; improving the chances of finding superior varieties while reducing the time it takes to get them to market. In conjunction with modern breeding efforts, the industry is continuously improving production, storage, processing, and marketing operations to offer consumers high-quality, nutritious potatoes year-round. This book discusses many of these items and explains the origin of the domesticated potato, its uses, nutritional contributions, production, storage and markets, plant anatomy, physiology and development, pest identification and management, and traditional and biotechnological cultivar development techniques. By incorporating intensive literature review with the applied expertise of the authors, this book is designed to educate and enlighten consumers, students, growers, industry personnel, and the scientific community.