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Metabolic engineering of potato carotenoid content through tuber-specific overexpression of a bacterial mini-pathway.

PLoS ONE, 2007
BackgroundSince the creation of "Golden Rice", biofortification of plant-derived foods is a promising strategy for the alleviation of nutritional deficiencies.
Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili, Raffaela Tavazza, Velia Papacchioli, Peter Beyer, Giovanni Giuliano   +5 more
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Evaluation of some properties of starch and starch edible films from sub-utilized roots and tubers from the Venezuelan Amazons [PDF]

, 2011
Biopolymers extracted from agricultural starchy commodities can be raw materials for edible, biologically degradable plastics. They have promising uses, having been proposed for replacing synthetic films.
Ducamp-Collin, Marie-Noelle, Guzman, Romel, Perez, Elevina, Rolland-Sabaté, Agnès, Tapia, Maria Soledad, Tran, Thierry   +5 more
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USE OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS TO OBTAIN MINI TUBERS OF Dioscorea remotiflora Kunth IN MICROPROPAGATED PLANTS

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
Background: Camote de cerro (Dioscorea remotiflora Kunth) stands out as a crop option in protected agriculture in Mexico due to its agronomic benefits and its versatility in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
Mariela Monserrat Espíritu-Rodríguez, Fernando Santacruz-Ruvalcaba, José Juvencio Castañeda-Nava, Rosalba Mireya Hernández-Herrera, Eduardo Salcedo-Pérez, Lino de la Cruz-Larios   +5 more
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Integrating biological control as a sustainable approach for managing silver scurf and black dot in potatoes

Biological Control
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a globally cultivated crop, but blemish diseases such as silver scurf (Helminthosporium solani) and black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes) cause significant quality and market losses, black dot could reduce yield up to 30 ...
Apsara Indhu Gopan, Sabine Ravnskov, Jens Grønbech Hansen, Isaac Kwesi Abuley   +3 more
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Thin-layer agar for detection of resistance to rifampicin, ofloxacin and kanamycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In low-income countries there is a great need for economical methods for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the thin-layer agar (TLA) for rapid detection of resistance to rifampicin
Almeida, P, Fissette, K, Martin, A, Paasch, F, Palomino, J-C, Portaels, F, Varaine, F, Von Groll, A   +7 more
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Determination of Nutrient Solutions for Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Seed Production under Aeroponics Production System

Open Agriculture, 2017
In soilless culture like aeroponics, nutrient optimization is the most critical factor to produce high quality and high yield of clean potato seed. Each crop has an optimum nutritional requirement.
Tessema Lemma, Chindi Abebe, Gebremedhin W. Giorgis, Solomon Atsede, Shunka Egata, Seid Ebrahim   +5 more
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Penggunaan Bobot Umbi Bibit Pada Peningkatan Hasil Tanaman Kentang (Solanum Tuberosum L.) G3 Dan G4 Varietas Granola [PDF]

, 2014
Budidaya tanaman kentang di Indonesia didukung dengan penggunaan bibit yang baik dan generasi bibit tidak melebihi generasi ke empat sehingga dapat meningkatan hasil tanaman kentang.
Heddy, S. (Suwasono), Suryanto, A. (Agus), Wulandari, A. N. (Angelia)   +2 more
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Methods of potato tuber reproduction in original seeding

Новые технологии, 2017
The article contains the results of the research (2011-2016) on the identification of the optimal method for obtaining the initial tuber material of potatoes in the conditions of the mountainous and foothill zones of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
T. G. Dzhioeva, S. S. Basiev, F. T. Gherieva, A. S. Basieva   +3 more
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Morphological character evolution of Amorphophallus (Araceae) based on a combined phylogenetic analysis of trnL, rbcL, and LEAFY second intron sequences [PDF]

, 2010
Sequences of three different genes in 69 taxa of Amorphophallus were combined to reconstruct the molecular phylogeny of this species-rich Aroid genus.
Eurlings, M.C.M., Gravendeel, B., Hetterscheid, W.L.A., Sedayu, A.   +3 more
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Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato [PDF]

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world’s most important non-grain food crop and is central to global food security. It is clonally propagated, highly heterozygous, autotetraploid, and suffers acute inbreeding depression.
Bachem, C.W.B., Boer, J.M., de, Borm, T.J.A., Cheng, S.F., Datema, E., Eck, H.J., van, Goverse, A., Ham, R.C.H.J., van, Kloosterman, B.A., Pan, S.K., Visser, R.G.F., Xu, X., Zhang, B.   +12 more
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