The main objective of this project, VETAB project, is to determine alternatives to massive copper utilization to control potato late blight (Phytophtora infestans (Mont.) de Bary) in organic systems. To reach such a target, we first performed a screening of candidate products and additives based on their efficiency in the laboratory, under controlled conditions. We evaluated a wide range of pro...

nowadays, potato is one of the most important foods in the people¢s diet. daily consumption of potato is increasing in iran significantly; therefore the study and research on this product is essential. in order to the components of potato, three varieties of potato (diamant, aola and draga) were chosen from thirty six fields in north of khorasan province. each variety was harvested from 12 fiel...

Potato image segmentation is an important part of image-based potato defect detection. This paper presents a robust potato color image segmentation through a combination of a fuzzy rule based system, an image thresholding based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization and morphological operators. The proposed potato color image segmentation is robust against variation of background, distance and ...

Objective: Potato is the fourth important food crop after wheat, rice and maize. Shrinkage  of  food  materials  has  a negative  consequence  on  the  quality  of  the dehydrated product. The main objective pursued in this paper is to investigate the shrinkage amount of potato slices during drying process using vacuum-infrared method. Methods: In this work, the effect of the infrared radiation...

In the presence of potato plants cv. Golden Wonder, Globodera pallida exhibited delayed in-soil hatch compared to that of G. rostochiensis, with significantly fewer G. pallida second-stage juvenile nematodes hatching in the first two weeks, though the difference disappeared after four weeks. Inoculation of potato plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi eliminated this delay in G. pallida hatch...

due to problems in storage, transport and price fluctuation of fresh potato, production of ready-to-use products like french fries is of particular importance.one of the important steps in product processing is pre-drying.sticks with 0.8*0.8*8 cm dimensions were prepared, blanched with hot water at 75°c for 10 minutes and dried at four different air temperatures of 50, 60, 70 and 80°c to moistu...

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN) collected in six localities in the Leningrad region of North West Russia were identified as Globodera rostochiensis pathotype Ro1 and were used for subsequent resistance tests. Seventynine accessions of cultivated and closely related wild potato species from the VIR collection in Russia were screened on resistance to G. rostochiensis pathotype Ro1 and on the presence...

The in vitro fungitoxic activity of crude extracts of neem (Azadirachta indica) (A.) Juss) and pawpaw (Carica papaya) (L.) on Alternaria solani, isolated from rotting yam tubers whose pathogenicity has been proven and assessed. The organic solvent (methanol) extracts of leaves of neem and pawpaw at 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% concentrations were tested on potato dextrose agar (PDA) for activity again...

this study investigated the effect of carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc), tragacanth, and saalab hydrocolloids in two concentrations (0.3 and 0.7%) and different frying media (refined canola oil (rco), rco+1% bene kernel oil (bko), and rco+1 mg l-1 unsaponifiable matter (usm) of bko on acrylamide formation in fried potato slices. the hydrocolloid coatings significantly reduced acrylamide formation i...