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...

Table of Contents:

• A history of the potato / Charles Raymond Brown and Jan-Willem Henfling
• Taxonomy / Ronald G. van den Berg and N. Groendijk-Wilders
• Potato utilization and markets / Jennifer K. Bond
• Tuber development / Bjorn Kloosterman and Christian Bachem
• Plant growth and development / Carrie H. Wohleb, N. Richard Knowles, and Mark J. Pavek
• Commercial potato production and cultural management / Mark J. Pavek
• Plant-water relations and irrigation management of potato / David Levy and Warren K. Coleman
• Seed potato production / Robert D. Davidson and Kaiyun Xie
• Insect pests of potato / Timothy D. Waters and Andrew S. Jensen
• Plant parastic nematodes of potato / Juan E. Palomares-Rius, Clandio M.G. Oliveira and Vivian C. Blok
• Fungal and bacterial disease aspects in potato production / William W. Kirk and Phillip S. Wharton
• Virus disease problems facing potato industries worldwide : viruses found, climate change implications, rationalizing virus strain nomenclature and addressing the potato virus Y issue / Roger A.C. Jones
• Weed control strategies for potato (Solanum tuberosum) / Ian C. Burke and Wesley J. Everman
• Tuber physiological disorders / Loretta Mikitzel
• Postharvest storage and physiology / Paul C. Bethke
• Traditional breeding and cultivar development / Richard Novy
• Molecular breeding of potato in the postgenomic era / Richard E. Veilleux and T. Boluarte-Medina
• Nutritional characteristics of potatoes / Duroy Navarre, Aymeric Goyer, Raja Payyavula and Hanjo Hellmann
• Potato flavour / Mark A. Taylor.