Directory of Potato Resources

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The potato is a vegetable derived from the root tubers of Solanum tuberosum L.

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Resources in This Category

• Assured Produce Protocol for Potatoes

  http://www.assuredproduce.co.uk/resources/000/255/265/Potatoes1.pdf
  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.

• EuroBlight

  http://www.euroblight.net/
  A European network of scientists and other specialists working on potato late blight

• Global Potato News

  http://www.potatonews.com/
  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 section for important potato publications.

• Growing Potato Plants

  http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_november_1_potato.asp
  In depth article on small scale planting, cultivation and harvesting of potatoes. Potato pests and diseases fully described.

• International Potato Center (CIP)

  http://www.cipotato.org/
  Works to enhance the cultivation, yield, processing, and consumption of potatoes, sweetpotato and other Andean roots and tubers that are in danger of extinction.

• Mountain Valley Produce And Potato Seed

  http://www.mvproduce.com/
  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.

• Post-harvest Management: Potato

  http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch17.htm#TopOfPage
  Provides information on harvesting, transport, threshing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage.

• Potato Grower Magazine Online

  http://www.potatogrower.com/
  The official web site of Potato Grower Magazine. Information on chemical producers, equipment manufacturers, blight, irrigation equipment, and advertising information.

• Spudman, Voice of the Potato Industry

  http://www.spudman.com/
  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.

• The European Cultivated Potato Database

  http://www.europotato.org/
  Online listing of cultivated varieties of potato, their history and characteristics.

• Ubi7

  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jan98/tool0198.htm
  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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