Storage of potatoes : effects of ethylene and 1-MCP on potato tuber quality and biochemistry [PDF]
, 2012 Potatoes are widely consumed in UK and many other countries. There is a continuous demand for potatoes all year around both from consumers and retailers such that several postharvest technologies are being used to meet this demand.
Foukaraki, Sofia
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How Planting Density Affects Number and Yield of Potato Minitubers in a Commercial Glasshouse Production System [PDF]
, 2009 Commercial potato minituber production systems aim at high tuber numbers per plant. This study investigated by which mechanisms planting density (25.0, 62.5 and 145.8 plants/m2) of in vitro derived plantlets affected minituber yield and minituber number ...
van der Veeken, A.J.H. +2 more
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Pathogenicity of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica on potato [PDF]
, 2005 Host–parasite relationships and pathogenicity of Meloidogyne javanica on potatoes (newly recorded from Malta) were studied under glasshouse and natural conditions. Potato cvs Cara and Spunta showed a typical susceptible reaction to M. javanica under
Mifsud, David +3 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZATION ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF POTATO CROP. [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2005 Two field experiments were carried out during the two successive tall (nih) seasons of 2003/2004 and 200412005 on potato cv. Spunta at Abou Awad village. Aga, Dakahlia Governorate, to study the influence of organic manures (farmyard biogas and chicken)
El-S. Awad,
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EFFECT OF PLANTING DATES AND SEED TUBER SOURCES ON PRODUCTIVITY OF POTATO IN SIWA OASIS [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2014 An experiment was conducted at Siwa Oasis Research Station, Matrooh Governorate, Desert Research Center in two consecutive winter seasons, 2012 and 2013 to determine the effects of four planting dates (1st of Jan., mid of Jan., 1st of Feb. and mid.
S. Gomaa
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Assessment of recent outbreaks of Dickeya sp (syn. Erwinia chrysanthemi) slow wilt in potato crops in Israel [PDF]
, 2009 Suspected Dickeya sp. strains were obtained from potato plants and tubers collected from commercial plots. The disease was observed on crops of various cultivars grown from seed tubers imported from the Netherlands during the spring seasons of 2004-2006,
Slawiak, M. +8 more
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Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp carotovorum can cause potato blackleg in temperate climates [PDF]
, 2008 It is well established that the pectinolytic bacteria Pectobacterium atrosepticum (Pca) and Dickeya spp. are causal organisms of blackleg in potato. In temperate climates, the role of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Pcc) in potato blackleg,
de Haan, E.G. +9 more
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GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF POTATO AS AFFECTED BY SOME ANTIOXIDANTS [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2007 This experiment was carried out during the two fall seasons of 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 on potato cv. Spunta at Abou Awad village, Aga, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt to assess the response of potato plant to some antioxidant treatments on growth, yield and
Safa. Mansour, E. Awad,
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EFFECT OF YEAST EXTRACT AND POTASSIUM HUMATE ON PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF POTATO (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM) UNDER DIFFERENT REGIMES OF DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN NEWLY RECLAIMED SOILS [PDF]
Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development, 2019 Field experiments were carried out at the Experimental Farm of Arab ElAwammer Research Station, Agriculture Research Center, Assiut, Egypt, during the two successive growth seasons of 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, to study the effect of applied Bio ...
A.S. Badawy, +3 more
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EFFECT OF MEPIQUAT CHLORIDE AND POTASSIUM SOURCES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF PATATO PLANTS (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM L.) [PDF]
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 In this study, Two field experiments were conducted in Ourabi operation Farm, Cairo-Ismaellia desert road at Kalubia Governorate. The experiment was carried out during the two seasons of 2013/2014 and 2015/2016, to investigate the effect of plant ...
Ali Abo Al-Nagaa
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