Potatoes are becoming China's fourth staple food after rice, wheat and corn, according to the Ministry of Agriculture in January. But why is the potato the choice? Potatoes are healthy and nutritious. And they are easy to grow. They can be grown in the north and sou...
Recommended planting time:Potatoes can be grown in many months of the year, depending on whether the garden receives frost, as potatoes are frost-tender. Potatoes need 60-90 days frost-free to be successfully harvested; potatoes harvested early as 'new' potatoes do not store well. Can I grow...
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The common potato, Solanum tuberosum L., is the third most important food crop and is grown and consumed worldwide. Indigenous cultivated (landrace) potato
Detection of sweet potato feathery mottle potyvirus in sweet potato grown in northern Australia using an efficient and simple assay. A convenient virus detection assay was required to screen sweet potato cultivars being grown commercially for the first time in the Darwin region of northe... KS Gi...
In some areas of southern Australia, cadmium (Cd) concentrations in excess of the Australian maximum permitted concentration (0.05 mg kg 1 fresh weight) have been found in tubers of commercially grown potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) crops. Field experiments were therefore conducted in various ...
“potatoes can be grown in really small plots and marginal land,” says nathan nunn, an economist at the university of british columbia who wrote a paper concluding that the introduction of the potato accounted for about a quarter of the population growth in the old world ...
Field studies were conducted in Poland to determine the effect of pre-germination of potato seed tubers of 8 cultivars grown in organic cropping system on ... L Lenc - 《Progress in Plant Protection》 被引量: 1发表: 2009年 Evaluation of potato cultivar resistance to common scab, black scur...
PepsiCo has already put potato crisps using crops grown with green hydrogen-derived fertilisers onto the market in Spain. However, these fertilisers were supplied by Fertiberia, which drew on H2from Iberdrola’s 20MW Puertollano pilot, with the carbon footprint calculated to have been reduced by...
When I was growing up, my dad grew potatoes in our backyard, and I came to appreciate freshly harvested, home-grown new potatoes mashed with their skins on. In my book, there's nothing better. But that doesn't mean that I always leave the skins on. Again, it depends on the circumsta...