SECTION 1: Potato Cultivation in Russia: Potato Seed Classification, Production Systems, and Modern Technologies
Chapter 1: Russian Potato Growing History: Categories and classes/generations of potato seed and the system of its production stages
Chapter 2: Potato Consumption Patterns, Crop Acreage, Bulk Yields, Yielding Capacity and Priority Lines of Innovative Development
Chapter 3: Technologies for Clonal Propagation of Healthy Parent in Vitro Material and in Vitro Microtuber Growth
Chapter 4: Technologies for Growing Minitubers
Chapter 5: Production of Potato Seed: Potato Breeding Using True Seeds
SECTION 2. Special Aspects of Phytosanitary and Process Regulations when Growing Top-Quality Potato Seed
Chapter 6: Selection of Special Protected Territories with Favorable Natural, Climatic and Phytosanitary Conditions
Chapter 7: Basic Agronomical and Protective Techniques Used in Potato Seed Production
SECTION 3: Main Control Items of Potato Seed Quality: Purity of Variety, Diseases, Pests, Defects
Chapter 8: Authenticity and Purity of a Variety: Viral and Viroid Pathogens Monitored in Potato Seed Production
Chapter 9: Potato Bacterioses: Rots on Tubers Caused by Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens
Chapter 10: Defects Caused by Physiological Disorders Under Abnormal Conditions: Damages, Injuries, Diseases and Pests of Quarantine Significance
SECTION 4: Potato Seed Quality Control and Certification
Chapter 11: Quality Standards for Various Potato Seed Categories: Crop Surveys and Appraisement of Plantings, Tuber Analysis
Chapter 12: Soil Control of Varieties: Laboratory Diagnostics of Phytopathogens and Commercial Potato Seed Marking
Bibliography
Index
Sergey V. Zhevora – Director of Russian Potato Research Center, PhD in Agriculture
Boris V. Anisimov – Head of laboratory of variety identification and soil control of the original potato seed of Russian Potato Research Center, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), Honorary Worker in the agricultural sector of Russia, Distinguished Worker in the agricultural sector of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
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.