To confirm presence of bacterial wilt in potatoes, cut a
tuber or the stem and suspend it in a glass of water for some time.
Tuber elevatireticulatum was found in Xitou in central Taiwan in 2017, the institute said.
Conditioning can double or triple the number of slips the
tuber will produce in a timely manner.
The exported potato from Egypt remarkably increased in 2015, the total quantity exported were 632 thousand tons compared to the 289 thousand tons in 2012according to Agricultural Statistics Bulletin (2015),the exported Egyptian potato
tuber is mainly produced from winter cultivation.
They have shown that against all conventional thinking,
tuber crops and wheat can be substitutes to their traditional habit of rice consumption.
On average, the dry matter content of potato
tuber is 20% and the large proportion (60 to 80%) of dry matter is composed of starches, making it a food rich in carbohydrates [4].
Proper plant growth conditions are essential for potato growth and
tuber yield.
Tuber initiation is a complex process of potato development that involves the differentiation of stolons into storage organs called
tubers, at which point the sink-source relationship of potato plant is reversed and
tubers become the main sink, rather than growth and foliar development (HELDWEIN et al., 2009).
Results: The results showed that the methanol concentration of 15% gave the best effect in increasing the production of potatoes, namely: an increase in the number of tubers/plant from 11.71 into 15.43 fruit,
tuber weight/plant from 278.40 into 326.97 g, diameter of the bulb 3.84 to 3.97 cm, and
tuber production from 18.56 tons/ha to 21.85 t/ha.
Results of the interactive effect of genotypes x substrates on plant and
tuber traits concluded that maximum germination (90.5 %), plant height (46.3 cm), micro
tubers (212.7), small
tubers (45.7), medium
tubers (28.2), large
tubers (10.2) and total
tubers (296.8), maximum weight of micro (1491 g), small
tubers (757.6 g), medium
tubers (828.9 g), large
tubers (483.7 g) and total
tuber weight (3561) per unit area (1m-2) and total
tuber yield (35.6 t ha-1) were found in TPS-9804 grown in the substrate of soil+sand+FYM.
Potato
tuber undergoes physiological dormancy period during the storage.
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