Potato Root Crops Field Crops
Potato Root Crops Field Crops
The potato is a vegetable derived from the root tubers of Solanum tuberosum L.
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Global Potato News - An online source of potato related information featuring daily potato news updates, a directory of more than 800 links to relevant potato web sites, a globally distributed electronic newsletter containing information about online potato news events and a
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Potato Grower Magazine Online - The official web site of Potato Grower Magazine. Information on chemical producers, equipment manufacturers, blight, irrigation equipment, and advertising information.
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Post-harvest Management: Potato - Provides information on harvesting, transport, threshing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage.
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Potato Research Online - Potato Research Online (PRO) is an online initiative that serves as a gathering place for potato researchers, extension people, growers and other industry members who have a keen interest in potato research. E-services for members include electronic newsl
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The Potato Then and Now - Compendium of information on potato growing techniques, potato cultivation in history, and science and technology in potato production.
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Growing Potato Plants - In depth article on small scale planting, cultivation and harvesting of potatoes. Potato pests and diseases fully described.
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Ubi7 - News on a friendly potato gene known as ubiquitin7. Agricultural Research Service researchers snipped part of the gene, hooked it onto a soft-rot-fighting gene, and inserted this new combination into experimental 'potatoes'.
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Assured Produce Protocol for Potatoes - Producing crops in accordance with these standards allows growers to sell produce to any supermarket or processor in the UK. Information on site selection, site management, variety selection, nutrition, irrigation, crop protection, harvesting and storage.
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Potato Industry Profile - Provides information on the history of potato cultivation, production in the United States, demand and the health benefits of the potato.
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Quantum Tubers Corporation, Delavan, Wisconsin - A global company making an advance in seed potato production through biotechnology for pathogen-free, virus-free, potato minitubers.
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The European Cultivated Potato Database - Online listing of cultivated varieties of potato, their history and characteristics.
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Spudman, Voice of the Potato Industry - Online version of print magazine provides the latest industry news, an up to date calendar of events, a complete industry product guide, and a directory of potato-related links.
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International Potato Center (CIP) - Works to enhance the cultivation, yield, processing, and consumption of potatoes, sweetpotato and other Andean roots and tubers that are in danger of extinction.
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Briefing Room - Potatoes - USDA provides an overview of potato production in the US, the background, trade and the market outlook. It also produces a newsletter and recommends certain on-line publications.
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EuroBlight - A European network of scientists and other specialists working on potato late blight
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Mountain Valley Produce And Potato Seed - Based in Colorado. Photographic tour of seed potato farm, potato variety growing guidelines, recipes and cooking tips, lettuce farming operation tour, and history of the potato.
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