Impact of selenium enrichment on seed potato tubers

Tps-derived seed tubers for potato production in fereydan region of iran

Characterization and Epidemiological Significance of Potato Plants Grown from Seed Tubers Affected by Zebra Chip Disease

Tuberborne diseases of potato, such as Potato virus Y and Potato leafroll virus, present significant problems for potato seed growers and producers alike. An emerging disease of potato, called “Zebra Chip” or “Zebra Complex” (ZC), has recently appeared in the United States and elsewhere and is causing significant losses to individual growers and processors. First identified in northeastern Mexi...

Influence of early-season nitrogen application pattern on impact sensitivity in Russet Burbank potato tubers

As part of an effort to assess the influence of cultural practices on bruising in potato tubers, this work was a preliminary study to determine whether the pattern of early-season nitrogen fertilizer application influences impact sensitivity (bruise threshold and bruise resistance) in Russet Burbank tubers. Tissue sample impact failure stress, strain, and shock wave speed, and whole-tuber bruis...

Structure of potato tubers formed during spaceflight.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Norland) explants, consisting of a leaf, axillary bud, and small stem segment, were used as a model system to study the influence of spaceflight on the formation of sessile tubers from axillary buds. The explants were flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-73, 20 October to 5 November 1995) in the ASTROCULTURE (TM) flight package, which provided a controlled e...

Probability of Globodera rostochiensis Spread on Equipment and Potato Tubers.

The probability of spreading cysts of Globodera rostochiensis on farming equipment and potato tubers was investigated in naturally infested field plots. The number of cysts recovered from soil that adhered to equipment differed significantly between different pieces of equipment. These differences were related to initial nematode density and, in most cases, to the volume of soil that adhered to...