Malformed tubers take many shapes. The deformed or misshapen tubers may be knobby, doll-like, have bottle necks like dumbbells and have a spiked.

When tubers mature before they are harvested the skin sets. Before the skin is set the thin epidermis can easily be removed through abrasion or.

Different outlets have different optimal dry matter concentrations of tubers. The dry matter concentration of table potatoes in general is lower than.

Tuber cracks, fissures and clefts have different appearances following different causes. They are healed wounds but clearly visible as scars on the.

Besides infection by pests and diseases, potato is also prone to many disorders of non-pathogenic origin. Such non-pathogenic origins are of an.

Insect populations increase with increased temperature. Three insects are of particular importance when it comes to potato production, with.

When potato originally was introduced from South America to Europe and from there was distributed globally, hardly any diseases and pests came.

The development rate of pests and disease is the increase rate of their population. The population is expressed as the number of spores in case of.

A higher CO₂ concentration of the air, a factor in climate change according to its definition in the Potato handbook, increases the internal CO₂.

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