UV-B radiation and EOD light (EOD) quality has both signaling and damaging effects based on the dosage and time of exposure. At highland areas UV-B decreases crop productivity and also light quality increase at high elevation area but EOD light quality effect was not researched based on altitude. Therefore, in the present study a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of UV-B...

Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate yield responses of four potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars (‘Russet Burbank’, ‘Shepody’, ‘Gold Rush’, and ‘Russet Prospect’) soil N dynamic changes two 3-year rotations in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The were the local industry standard potato–barley Hordeum vulgare L. )–red clover Trifolium pratense rotation (PBC) an alternative potato–soyb...

Abstract Transcriptomic changes in plants during drought stress give insights into the mechanisms with which stabilise their metabolic processes order to cope condition. In potato, understanding such drought-induced transcriptomic is critical because prolonged field interferes tuber formation and bulking period of potato development, eventually affects yield. We hypothesised that phenotypic res...

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a valuable staple crop that provides nutrition for large part of the human population around world. However, domestication process reduced its resistance to pests and pathogens. Phytophthora infestans, causal agent late blight disease, most destructive pathogen potato plants. Considerable efforts have been made develop blight-resistant cultivars, but success has li...

In the present study effects of production history on tuber sprout, root, stem development and crop yield of seed potato cultivars Fambo and Van Gogh were investigated in the High Grade Area of Finland (64.9 N, 25.4 E). The haulms of seed potatoes were destroyed at the time of flowering (50 days after planting, DAP), three weeks after flowering (75 DAP) and as a control the haulm was left to na...

Meloidogyne chitwoodi developed and reproduced more rapidly than M. hapla in potato roots at 15, 20, or 25 C when both species of nematodes were inoculated simultaneously at 250 or 1,000 juveniles of each. At 30 C significantly more M. hapla than M. chitwoodi females were found at the lower inoculum level after 41 days. More M. chitwoodi than M. hapla juveniles were extracted from soil at 15, 2...