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A proper basis for storing potatoes starts in the field

By Team PotatoWorld, Jul 22, 2020 12:00:00 PM

It is important to wait with harvesting until the potatoes are ready. Potatoes grow out in the field and are thus exposed to the vagaries of nature..

Topcis: Storage

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Precision farming in potato cultivation

By Team PotatoWorld, Jul 20, 2020 1:30:00 PM

In precision farming, potato crops and seed tuber lots are treated with the correct intervention at the smallest scale possible (up to the.

Topcis: Cultivation

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The role of storage in the potato economy

By Team PotatoWorld, Jul 15, 2020 4:00:00 PM

Proper potato storage is important, because potatoes that are not stored under proper conditions, will have a short shelf life after harvesting..

Topcis: Storage

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Need for irrigation in potato production

By Team PotatoWorld, Jul 13, 2020 2:00:00 PM

Potato production systems with abundant rainfall during the growing season do not depend on irrigation. Summer crops with severe and systematic lack.

Topcis: Cultivation

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Main potato viruses

By Team PotatoWorld, Jul 6, 2020 1:45:00 PM

Viruses are the smallest living organisms that can replicate themselves and they are only viable within living cells from which they draw the.

Topcis: Cultivation

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Decision support systems in potato cultivation

By Team PotatoWorld, Jun 29, 2020 10:13:35 AM

Organizing cultivation happens through strategic, tactical and operational decisions. Growing potatoes at all and going for seed, organic or starch.

Topcis: Cultivation

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Late blight (Phytophthora infestans)

By Team PotatoWorld, Jun 22, 2020 1:45:00 PM

In regions where potatoes are grown year-round, such as in tropical highlands, there are always spores of the disease present to infect newly.

Topcis: Growth

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Dynamics of tuber number per potato plant

By Team PotatoWorld, Jun 15, 2020 2:00:00 PM

Not all eyes on a seed tuber produce a sprout; on average, much less than half do and the number of sprouts at the multiple sprouting stage varies.

Topcis: Growth

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Aboveground structures of the potato plant: Main stem & lateral stems

By Team PotatoWorld, Jun 8, 2020 9:20:00 AM

When a seed tuber is planted, its sprout after emergence grows into a main stem. When the stem forms a flower bud at the tip or apex, the main stem.

Topcis: Growth

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The effect of climate change on tuber quality

By Team PotatoWorld, May 25, 2020 9:00:00 AM

In the Potato handbook, climate change is defined as the altering of long time weather as a consequence of the increase of greenhouse gases, with an.

Topcis: CO2

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