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Radiation Processing of Seed Potatoes as a Method for Suppressing Various Forms of Rhizoctonia in New Crop Tubers
AbstractThis study focuses on the impact of pre-planting irradiation of seed potatoes on the phenophases of the root crop and proliferation of fungus
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Effects of Natural Diffused Light Storage on Highland Seed Potatoes and Subsequent Field Performance in Lowland
Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is an essential staple crop in China. Appropriate storage methods and technology are critical to ensure the quality of...
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Fungicide Seed Treatment Improves Performance of Single-Drop Whole and Cut Seed Potatoes
Seed potatoes in North America are predominantly cut and treated with a fungicide seed potato treatment before planting. Though seed potatoes that...
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Agronomic performance of diploid inbred potatoes and their F1 hybrid potatoes
Phenotypic uniformity and tuber yield are fundamental concerns in diploid inbred-based F 1 hybrid breeding in potatoes. We evaluated the agronomic...
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The bacterial wilt burden in the seed potato system in Ethiopia: a case of Oromia and Southern Nations’ regions
The productivity of potatoes is constrained by many diseases, and bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs) is among the major production...
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Potato Seed Decay and Stand Loss is Not Caused by Dickeya Spread during Cutting and Handling of Seed Potatoes
Soft rot bacteria are the main cause of early seed decay and stand losses in field grown potatoes. These bacteria are present in most surface water...
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How Kenyan Potato Farmers Evaluate the Seed: Implications for the Promotion of Certified Seed Potato
Improving the quality of seed potatoes that smallholder farmers plant continues to represent one of the most important challenges of the potato...
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Ways to Reduce Irrigation Water Consumption when Cultivating Potatoes in the Lower Volga Region
AbstractPotatoes in the arid zone of southern Russia are grown only under irrigation, using mainly the ridge technology recommended by regional...
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StCoExpNet: a global co-expression network analysis facilitates identifying genes underlying agronomic traits in potatoes
Key messageWe constructed a gene expression atlas and co-expression network for potatoes and identified several novel genes associated with various...
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Nutritional, Processing and Sensorial Attributes of Organic and Inorganic Indian Potatoes
Consumption of potatoes is quite high compared to other vegetables due to preparation in diversified ways, low cost and easy availability; hence,...
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Farmers Experiencing Potato Seed Degeneration Respond but Do Not Adjust Their Seed Replacement Strategies in Ecuador
In Ecuador, farmers poorly adopt practices to manage potato seed degeneration. This could be related to the deficient understanding of the farmers’...
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Seed Quality and Variety Preferences Amongst Potato Farmers in North-Western Kenya: Lessons for the Adoption of New Varieties
Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is an important commercialised food crop in Kenya. Recently, Kenya has realised a huge increase in the number of...
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Post-Harvest Losses in Potatoes from Farm to Fork
Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L) is one of the major tuber crops. Every year, due to the perishable nature of this crop, significant post-harvest losses...
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increase the Yield and Nutritional Quality of Yellow and Purple Fleshed Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)
Potatoes are the most highly consumed vegetable in the United States and are the primary source of antioxidants in the American diet. Therefore,...
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in diploid and tetraploid potatoes
CRISPR/Cas9 is a unique technology that has enabled researchers to edit genomes. The current study was conducted to investigate the efficiency of...
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Impacts of Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) Pre-treatment on the Characteristics of Fried Yellow- and Purple-Fleshed Potatoes: a Chemometric-Assisted FTIR Study
Pulsed electrical field (PEF) treatment with 1 kJ/kg and 3 kJ/kg of energies was applied to yellow- and purple-fleshed potatoes before frying (180 °C...
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Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa
Gender gaps in adoption of high-quality seeds of improved varieties persist in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite the implementation of various seed...
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Seed tuber imprinting shapes the next-generation potato microbiome
BackgroundPotato seed tubers are colonized and inhabited by soil-borne microbes, that can affect the performance of the emerging daughter plant in...
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CRISPR/Cas-mediated knockdown of vacuolar invertase gene expression lowers the cold-induced sweetening in potatoes
Main conclusionVInv gene editing in potato using CRISPR/Cas9 resulted in knockdown of expression and a lower VInv enzymatic activity resulting in a...
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Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador
Potato production in low-income countries is threatened by seed degeneration, i.e., the accumulation of seed-borne diseases and pests in potato seed...
