With declining funding in agricultural research and development coupled with tremendous pressure from different stakeholders, it is now essential for research institutes to demonstrate the return on investments in projects they implement. In response to the above need, this study evaluated the return on investment of seed sector interventions imple...
Potato (Solanum sp., family Solanaceae) is the most important noncereal food crop globally. It has over 100 wild relatives in the Solanum section Petota, which features species with both sexual and asexual reproduction and varying ploidy levels. A pangenome of Solanum section Petota composed of 296 accessions was constructed including diploids and ...
Common potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and its wild relatives belong to Solanum section Petota. This section's phylogeny and species delimitation are complicated due to various ploidy levels, high heterozygosity, and frequent interspecific hybridization. Compared to the nuclear genome, the plastid genome is more conserved, has a haploid nature, and h...
Research experiments were carried out with six promising potato clones of International Potato Center (CIP) compared with four recommended varieties of Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) as checks with the objective to identify high yielding, short duration variety suitable for rice-wheat cropping system of subtropical region of Haryana. The ...
: In order to investigate the relationship between hydraulic lift and drought tolerance in potato, four cultivars differing in drought susceptibilities were selected, and a pot experiment with three different irrigation conditions was carried out in a randomized complete block design. Under irrigation conditions (WW), hydraulic lift of soil water w...
La cantidad de energía solar absorbida por una hoja es en gran parte función de la concentración foliar de los pigmentos fotosintéticos. Por lo tanto, bajas concentraciones de clorofila pueden limitar el potencial fotosintético y por consiguiente la síntesis de compuestos primarios de una planta. En este trabajo se describe un método no destructivo...
In Ecuador, farmers poorly adopt practices to manage potato seed degeneration. This could be related to the deficient understanding of the farmers' capacity to experience seed degeneration and respond to it. We contribute to this understanding by answering: How do farmers experience seed degeneration?; What practices do farmers implement when their...
Cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum, is the third most consumed crop globally and important not only for food but also for for the animal feed, pharmaceutical, textile and paper industries. To gain an overview on the current state of the conservation and use of potato genetic resources, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust), ...
