BookSergey V. Zhevora, Boris V. Anisimov, editors.
Summary: This book comprises the best potato seed production practices and includes details on potato cultivation, classification, and the main structural elements of the successive stages of potato seed production. It presents potato varieties from Russian originators, describes modern technologies involved in the process of potato seed production, and presents special aspects of phytosanitary and process regulations for the cultivation of high-quality potato seed. Additionally, the authors illustrate the statutory regulation of salable quality of potato seed: purity of variety, diseases, pests, and defects. The authors identify Russian quality control methods and certification of potato seed, and consider the packaging and labeling of potato seed that is held for sale. Finally, the authors also clarify the features of foreign potato seed certification systems.
Contents:
Introduction
Russian Potato Growing History
Potato Consumption Patterns, Crop Acreage, Bulk Yields, Yielding Capacity and Priority Lines of Innovative Development
Technologies for Clonal Propagation of Healthy Parent in Vitro Material and in Vitro Microtuber Growth
Technologies for Growing Minitubers
Production of Potato Seed: Potato Breeding Using True Seeds
Selection of Special Protected Territories with Favorable Natural, Climatic and Phytosanitary Conditions
Basic Agronomical and Protective Techniques Used in Potato Seed Production
Authenticity and Purity of a Variety
Potato Bacterioses
Defects Caused by Physiological Disorders Under Abnormal Conditions
Quality Standards for Various Potato Seed Categories
Soil Control of Varieties
Bibliography
Index.