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Cool season vegetables.
Cultivation of onion and garlic.
Diseases of onion and garlic
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BERSEEM Trifolium alexandriannium is an annual leguminous fodder crop.
One of the most suitable fodder crops for areas below 1700 m altitude with irrigation facilities.
Remains soft and succulent at all stages of growth.
It can be grown without irrigation in areas with high water table and under water-logged conditions.
Indigenous to Egypt.
BITTERGOURD CULTIVATION , PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF BITTER GOURDArvind Yadav
BITTER GOURD
Scientific name : Momordica charantia L.
Family : Cucurbitaceae
Chromosome number :2n=22
Origin : Tropical Asia (Eastern India and
Southern China)
Common names : Balsam pear, Bitter cucumber
Varieties:-
Pusa Do Mausmi
Pusa Vishesh
CO 1
MDU 1
COBgoH-1
VK 1 Priya
Priyanka(Sel.1010)
Arka Harit
Harkani
Phule Green
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One of the most suitable fodder crops for areas below 1700 m altitude with irrigation facilities.
Remains soft and succulent at all stages of growth.
It can be grown without irrigation in areas with high water table and under water-logged conditions.
Indigenous to Egypt.
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BITTER GOURD
Scientific name : Momordica charantia L.
Family : Cucurbitaceae
Chromosome number :2n=22
Origin : Tropical Asia (Eastern India and
Southern China)
Common names : Balsam pear, Bitter cucumber
Varieties:-
Pusa Do Mausmi
Pusa Vishesh
CO 1
MDU 1
COBgoH-1
VK 1 Priya
Priyanka(Sel.1010)
Arka Harit
Harkani
Phule Green
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Raddish cultivation based on botany, plant characteristic, soil, climate, variety and varietal characteristic, problem in cultivation and their management practices and storage and post harvest handling.
It is a minor vegetable crop ,can be used in place of cucumber as salad ,still lot of work possibility are there in standardization of inputs in this crop .
Rice is a universal crop and It is grown in all the continents except Antarctica, occupying 150 million ha, producing 573 million tons paddy with an average productivity of 3.83 tonnes/ha. Its cultivation is of immense importance to food security of Asia, where more than 90% of the global rice is produced and consumed.
Potato is one of the most important food crop of the world . Potato is also known as Irish Potato / white potato ,is an herbaceous annual plant cultivated for it's underground modified stem known as Tuber .
Potato is grwon all over India accept Kerela and mostly grown in northern plains during shorten days in winter .
The name potato is thought to be originates from word Papa .
It's thoight to be originated in South America , and in India it introduced by Portuguese during 17 century.
Soil play an important role in high and quality yield of any crop
In potato cultivation , being a tuber crop it is well develop in sandy loam to sil-clay loam .
Soil rich in organic matter , free from clods .
The most optimum soil reaction in potato cultivation is 5.2 - 7.0 pH.
Avoid the soil having high salinity or sodicity problem .
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It will also help you get more yield and how to grow Vigna mungo(Mash bean) crop.
This presentation is done by 2010/2011 batch of Export Agriculture students of Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka as a requirement for the subject which is “Fruit & Vegetable Cultivation”. Note that the information included here is relevant to Sri Lankan condition.
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Parent-offspring conflict: evolutionary biology of tension arising between pa...Brahmesh Reddy B R
Parent-offspring conflict is a concept in evolutionary biology that describes the tension arising between parents and their offspring over the allocation of resources. This conflict was first extensively discussed by Robert Trivers in 1974, building on the principles of evolutionary theory. The theory posits that while parents and their offspring share a substantial amount of genetic material, their genetic interests are not perfectly aligned, leading to conflicts of interest.
Theoretical Basis
The theory is based on the principle that both parents and offspring are driven by natural selection to maximize their own inclusive fitness. However, the ways they can maximize their fitness often conflict, especially over the distribution of resources such as food, care, and shelter.
Parents' Perspective: From a parent's standpoint, the optimal strategy typically involves distributing resources equitably among all current and future offspring to maximize the total number of surviving offspring. This means that a parent may withhold some resources from a current offspring if it increases the survival and reproductive prospects of subsequent offspring.
Offspring's Perspective: Each offspring, however, will benefit from obtaining more resources than the siblings to maximize its own survival and reproductive success. This can lead to a situation where the offspring demands more resources than the parent is willing to allocate.
Manifestations of the Conflict
1. Weaning Conflict: This is one of the most common examples of parent-offspring conflict. Offspring may seek to prolong nursing to gain more nutrients, while the mother may attempt to wean them earlier to conserve resources for future offspring or her own survival.
2. Sibling Rivalry: Sibling rivalry can be seen as an extension of parent-offspring conflict where siblings compete for parental attention and resources. Here, the conflict manifests not directly between parent and offspring but mediated through competition among siblings.
3. Reproductive Conflict: In some species, especially birds, offspring may attempt to manipulate parents into providing more care by feigning hunger or weakness. Parents need to discern genuine signals of need from manipulative ones to distribute care optimally among all offspring.
Evolutionary Consequences
Resource Allocation Strategies: Evolution shapes both parental and offspring strategies for resource allocation. Parents evolve mechanisms to detect and counteract manipulation by offspring, while offspring evolve more sophisticated strategies to extract resources.
Impact on Life History Traits: Parent-offspring conflict can influence key life history traits such as growth rates, age at independence, and reproductive strategy. For example, faster growth can be an adaptive strategy for offspring in response to parental underinvestment.
Domestication is a form of artificial selection where humans selectively breed plants and animals for specific traits that are advantageous for agriculture, companionship, work, or other purposes. This process has profound effects on the species being domesticated, often resulting in genetic, morphological, physiological, and behavioral changes. Here's an overview of the effects of domestication in the course of evolution:
Genetic Diversity
Reduction in Genetic Diversity: Domestication typically involves selecting a few individuals with desirable traits to breed the next generation. This selective breeding can reduce genetic diversity because it often excludes a large portion of the population from reproducing. Reduced genetic diversity can make domesticated species more susceptible to diseases and reduce their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
Founder Effect: Many domesticated species originated from a relatively small ancestral population, which can lead to a pronounced founder effect. This effect occurs when a new population (in this case, domesticated species) is established from a small number of individuals, carrying only a fraction of the genetic diversity of the original population.
Morphological Changes
Size and Shape: Domestication often leads to changes in the size and shape of animals and plants. For example, domesticated animals tend to be larger or smaller than their wild counterparts, depending on the use intended by humans. Similarly, domesticated plants often have larger fruit or seeds than their wild relatives.
Neotenization: Domesticated animals often exhibit juvenile characteristics into adulthood, a process known as neotenization. This can include changes such as floppy ears, smaller jaws, and more docile behavior compared to their wild ancestors.
Physiological Changes
Reproductive Changes: Domesticated species often have higher reproductive rates compared to their wild counterparts. For instance, domesticated animals may breed more frequently or produce more offspring per breeding season. In plants, domestication can lead to a loss of natural seed dispersal mechanisms and an increase in seed yield.
Growth Rates: Enhanced growth rates are common in domesticated species, especially in animals bred for meat production, such as chickens and cattle, and in plants with selected traits for increased biomass or yield.
Auxin signal perception begins when auxin molecules bind to their receptor. The primary receptor for auxin is Transport Inhibitor Response 1 (TIR1), which is part of the SCF (SKP1, CUL1, F-box protein) complex, functioning as an E3 ubiquitin ligase. This receptor-ligand interaction is crucial for initiating the auxin response pathway.
Auxin Signal Transduction
Once auxin is bound to TIR1, the signal transduction pathway follows several steps:
Degradation of Aux/IAA Proteins: Auxin binding enhances the affinity of TIR1 for Aux/IAA proteins, which are repressors of auxin-responsive transcription factors called ARFs (Auxin Response Factors). The binding of auxin facilitates the ubiquitination of Aux/IAA proteins by the SCF complex, leading to their degradation via the 26S proteasome.
Activation of ARFs: With the degradation of Aux/IAA proteins, ARFs are released from repression. These transcription factors can then bind to auxin response elements (AuxREs) in the promoters of auxin-responsive genes, activating or repressing their expression.
Gene Expression Changes: The activation or repression of ARFs leads to changes in the expression of numerous genes involved in cell growth, division, and differentiation, as well as other physiological processes. This results in the various developmental and growth responses associated with auxin.
Feedback Regulation: The auxin signaling pathway includes mechanisms for feedback regulation to modulate the sensitivity of the response. For instance, some of the genes activated by ARFs encode Aux/IAA proteins, thus providing a negative feedback loop that adjusts the response to auxin.
Selection Intensity & Frequency based Selection in evolutionBrahmesh Reddy B R
Selection intensity and frequency-based selection are two important concepts in evolutionary biology, particularly in the study of how populations change over time due to various selective pressures. These concepts help explain differences in survival and reproductive success among individuals within a population, which are key to understanding evolutionary dynamics.
population. This concept is used to quantify how much a population's genetic makeup is altered by natural selection for or against a specific trait.
High Selection Intensity: When a trait significantly increases or decreases an organism's chances of survival and reproduction, selection intensity is said to be high. This typically results in rapid changes in allele frequencies within the population, driving quick evolutionary responses.
Low Selection Intensity: Conversely, if the trait has a smaller impact on survival and reproduction, selection intensity is low, resulting in slower evolutionary changes.
Selection intensity can be affected by environmental factors, predation pressures, competition for resources, and changes in population size.
Frequency-based selection (or frequency-dependent selection) occurs when the fitness of a phenotype depends on its frequency relative to other phenotypes in the population. There are two main types:
Positive Frequency-Dependent Selection: Here, the fitness of a phenotype increases as it becomes more common. An example is the selection for common warning colors in poisonous or distasteful animals, where predators more easily recognize and avoid commonly seen patterns.
Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection: In this case, the fitness of a phenotype increases as it becomes rarer. This can help maintain genetic diversity within a population. A classic example is seen in host-parasite interactions, where rare genotypes of the host may be less likely to be recognized and targeted by parasites.
Importance in Evolutionary Biology
Both selection intensity and frequency-based selection are crucial for understanding how populations adapt to their environments and how biodiversity is maintained. Selection intensity helps explain the speed and direction of evolution, while frequency-based selection helps explain the maintenance of diverse phenotypes within populations.
CO2 diffusion & concentration: aspects of stomatal conductance and intercellu...Brahmesh Reddy B R
Carbon dioxide (CO2) diffusion and concentration are fundamental aspects of plant physiology, directly influencing photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy. The efficiency of this process affects plant growth, productivity, and carbon cycling in ecosystems.
CO2 moves into the plant primarily through structures called stomata, which are tiny openings usually found on the underside of leaves. The opening and closing of these stomata are regulated by the plant in response to various environmental signals such as light, CO2 concentration, and water availability. Once inside the leaf, CO2 diffuses from the air spaces within the leaf to the site of photosynthesis in the chloroplasts of mesophyll cells.
Within the leaf, the concentration of CO2 is influenced by several factors:
Stomatal conductance: The degree to which stomata allow gas exchange; it controls how much CO2 enters the leaf.
Photosynthetic rate: The rate at which CO2 is consumed in photosynthesis. High rates of photosynthesis can lower internal CO2 concentrations, increasing CO2 diffusion from the atmosphere into the leaf.
Respiration: Plant cells respire, releasing CO2, which can then be reused for photosynthesis or diffuse out of the leaf.
Boundary layer resistance: A thin layer of still air hugging the leaf surface that can impede CO2 diffusion into the stomata.
Internal CO2 Concentration (Ci):
This is the concentration of CO2 within the leaf, which is a dynamic balance between CO2 diffusion into the leaf and its consumption during photosynthesis. The internal CO2 concentration is crucial for understanding photosynthetic efficiency and water use efficiency of plants.
G-protein coupled receptors and crucial roles in cellular signalingBrahmesh Reddy B R
In plants, GPCRs have not been as clearly defined or classified as in animals, partly due to their structural and functional diversity. However, several plant proteins with homology to animal GPCRs have been identified and are implicated in important biological processes. These include the perception of light, hormones, sugars, and other external stimuli.
One well-studied example in plants is the GCR1 (G-protein Coupled Receptor 1). Although its specific ligands and complete range of functions are still under investigation, GCR1 is linked with several signaling pathways that regulate development and responses to environmental changes. Plant GPCRs typically activate a heterotrimeric G protein, leading to a cascade of downstream signals that result in physiological and developmental changes.
Another example includes potential GPCRs involved in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, which plays a pivotal role in response to stress and developmental processes. These receptors are crucial for plants to cope with adverse conditions such as drought and salinity.
Heat Units in plant physiology and the importance of Growing Degree daysBrahmesh Reddy B R
Heat units, also known as growing degree days (GDD), are a crucial concept in plant physiology and agricultural science, providing a measure of heat accumulation used to predict plant development rates and stages. This measure is particularly useful in understanding and forecasting the growth phases of plants, such as flowering, fruiting, and maturity, which are temperature-dependent.
Key points on the importance of heat units in plant physiology include:
Predicting Phenological Events: Heat units help predict significant events in a plant’s life cycle, such as germination, flowering, and harvest times. This is vital for farmers and gardeners to optimize planting schedules and manage crop cycles efficiently.
Agricultural Planning: By calculating GDDs, agriculturists can decide the best times for planting, irrigating, applying fertilizers, and controlling pests. This can lead to better crop yields and improved management of resources.
Varietal Selection: Different plant varieties have specific heat unit requirements. Understanding these requirements helps in selecting the right varieties for a particular climatic zone, thus maximizing productivity and sustainability.
Climate Change Adaptation: Monitoring heat units over time can provide insights into shifting climate patterns and help in developing strategies to adapt agricultural practices to changing environmental conditions.
Research and Breeding: In plant breeding, heat unit data can help in developing varieties with desired traits such as drought tolerance or shortened growing periods, which are particularly valuable in regions facing climatic stresses.
Isoelectric Focusing for high resolution separation of proteinsBrahmesh Reddy B R
The development of the technique of isoelectric focusing (IEF) represents a major advance in the field of high-resolution separations of proteins and other amphoteric macromolecules. IEF is an equilibrium method in which amphoteric molecules are segregated according to their isoelectric points (pl) in pH gradients. The pH gradients are formed by electrolysis of amphoteric buffer substances known as carrier ampholytes. When introduced into this system, other amphoteric molecules such as proteins migrate to pH zones that correspond to their respective pls where their net charge is zero. By counteracting back-diffusion with an appropriate electrical field the separated molecules can be concentrated into extremely sharp bands. The technique has now been refined to a level that permits the resolution of molecules whose pls differ by as little as 0.005 pH unit or less. This degree of resolution cannot normally be obtained by conventional electrophoretic or chromatographic procedures. In these latter procedures, specially adjusted conditions have to be devised for particular separations. While in contrast, IEF, by virtue of being an equilibrium method has a “built-in” resolution which usually allows one to separate in only one or two experiments all components with measurably different pl values. Further. because it is an equilibrium method, the system is self-correcting and therefore considerably less demanding in terms of experimental technique. IEF is particularly suitable for differentiating closely related molecules and provides a valuable criterion of homogeneity.
This presentation briefly describes the methods by which stem reserve mobilization occurs with some case studies proving the occurrence of stem reserve mobilization. Also trying to explain the mechanism
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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ORIGIN
•Central region of South America
•Potato was introduced to India from Europe in the beginning of the seventeenth century,
probably by the Portuguese.
4. Area And Distribution
•2nd in area and production after China.
•In India UP ranks 1st in production
•West Bengal stands 1st in productivity
with 24 mt/ha.
•Gujrath stands 1st in productivity with
22.5mt/ha.
•During the year 2015-16, India
produced 43.41 million tones of potato
from an area of 2.11 million ha with an
average productivity of 20.6 t/ha.
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Solanum tuberosum L. Carolus Linnaeus
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Basically a crop of temperate region,
fast growing, short duration, cash
crop, high yield potential.
Cool/winter/Rabi season crop or
summer crop.
Tuberization → At stolon tips/ends
Semi-Hardy crop
Very Low respiration rate (<10 mg
CO2/kg/ha).
Shallow rooted vegetable, Long Day
Plant.
Photosynthetically C3 Plant
Potato
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Potato facts
Botanical Name Solanum tuberosum L. Carolus Linnaeus
Genus Solanum
Species 7 cultivated + 154 wild
Commercially
important spp 2 species (Solanum tuberosum and
Solanum andigenum)
Origin SouthAmerica
Family Solanaceae
Edible part Tuber
2n 4x=48 (Basic chromosome No. is 12)
Mode of reproduction Vegetative propagation
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Climatic
requirements
•Optimum temperature 15 to 200C
•Night temperature 200C is favorable and
Night temp. >200C Do not tuberize.
• At 300C → tuberization stop
•For best yields, it needs long day condition during
growth & short day condition during tuberization.
•Long photoperiod → Promotes
haulm growth but delay
tuberization
• Short photoperiod → Reduces
haulm growth but early tuberization
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Soil
requirements
•Potato can be grown in all types of soil
except saline and alkaline soils.
•friable with good drainage and
aeration.
•pH 6.0 to8.0
•Excellent Potato crop is grown under
river-bed system of cultivation
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Tuber rate
•Seed tubers 2.5 to 3 t/ha
•Pre-sprouted-healthy tuber
are used.
•1500 kg/ ha tubers for
riverbed.
•Tubers have a 2-3 months
rest period/dormant period
after harvest.
10. Tuber treatment
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•Dry Treatment (For 1000 kg cut pieces)
•(For soft rot): for 1 acre take mancozeb 1kg + 5 kg Talcum powder (1:5
ratio)
•Keep the treated pieces in the shade for 8 to 10 hrs after planting in the field
•Use 0.5% CuSo4 Solution
•For proper sprouting Soaking of pieces into Solution of 1 % thiourea + 1
ppm GA3 for 1 hr to get proper sprouting.
•Dormancy – broken by treating the tubers with thiourea, ethylene,
chlorohydrin and GA3 at time planting.
•Control for soil borne diseases: 0.2 %Diathane M-45 Solution keeps under
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Fertilizer requirement (INM)
FYM N
kg/ha
P
kg/ha
K
kg/ha
Time of application
25 to 30
t/ha +
1 t castor
cake
110 110 220 At the planting time in furrow
110 0 0 Top dressing – at the time of earthing
up after weeding (35 to 40 days)
Total 220 110 220
15. Irrigation
•Germination or Sprouting – 25 days after planting,
•Initiation of tuber – 40 days after planting and Development of tuber - 50 to 70 days
after plating
•First irrigation given at 10 to 12 days or after germination
•Total 8 to 10 irrigations→ loamy soil (8 to 10 days interval)
•Total 14 to 15 irrigations → sandy soil (6 to 8 days interval) 15
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Drip irrigation
• In Drip method, Lateral in the
each line, Dripper at 60 cm
• Discharge rate 4 litre/hr
• Dec.-Jan → 45 minutes at
alternate day,
• Feb → 68 minutes at alternate
day
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Intercultural/Weed management
• 2 to 3 Interculturing operation
• Pre-emergence spray of Metribuzin 70% WP (Sanker) 400g / 600 l water
• For 1 ha of area when ample moisture is there or (Paraquate). 24 EC 2.5 l
/ 1000 l of water
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Earthing up
It is an important operation.
To provide optimum conditions for
tuberization earthing up should be done in
such a way that adequate amount of soil
remain to cover the tubers.
It is always better to do earthing up at the
time of top dressing of nitrogenous
fertilizers.
First earthing up: 30-35 days after
planting
Second earthing up: 25-30 days after
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Seed Plot Technique
• Seed Plot Technique is discovered by Pushkarnath, 1967
• The basic information on build up of aphid population in various regions
made it possible to develop Seed Plot Technique for growing healthy seed
potato in sub tropical plains of India under low aphid periods.
• Seed plot technique in brief can be described as raising the crop during a
period, when aphid population is very low after taking pre-cautions such as
use of insecticides against aphids, periodical rouging of mosaic (virus)
affected plants and finally dehaulming the crop before aphids population
attained the critical level of 20 aphids per 100 compound leaves.
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True Potato Seed Technology
•Traditionally, seed tubers have been used to plant potato crop. This practice,
especially for developing countries is a major limiting factor because seed
tuber represents 40-70% of a crop production cost. (by Ramanujam in1957)
•Two tonnes of costly, perishable seed tubers are needed to plant one hectare
•The seed producing areas are located in the north of the country where
seed tuber production is taken up during low aphid incidence.
•Hence, the seeds from north are to be transported over long distances to
other potato growing areas leading to escalation cost.
•In some areas adequate cold storage facilities are also lacking.
•These problems have led the development of an alternate technology, which
envisages the use of botanical seed or the true potato seed (TPS).
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Advantages of TPS
• Byusing TPS,the entire tuber harvest would become available for table
purpose
• Cost of seed would be cheaper as very small quantity will be needed to
plant unit area, Transport of TPS is inexpensive and simple.
• 100 grams of TPS can replace 2 tonnes of seed tubers required for planting
one hectare.
• TPS may introduce potato cultivation into new areas where good quality
seed tubers are difficult to produce or store economically.
• TPS canbe stored for relatively longer period of time and does not require
expensive and specialized storage structures as required for seed tubers.
• Disease transmission by TPS is less than by seed tubers. Hence, the crop
27. Harvesting
and yield
350-450 quintals per ha marketable
potatoes
early maturing varieties is 20 t/ha
late maturing varieties is 30 t/h.
25 to 35 t / ha in field condition and 40 to
50 t /ha in riverbed condition
29. Storage methods
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Room Storage
•The room should have a good
ventilation.
•The doors and ventilators
should be fitted with insect-
proof wire-nets. Potatoes
can be stored in single
layers on sand.
•Frequent examination is necessary to
discard tubers showing rotting
symptoms.
30. Pit Storage
30
•pits 60-75 cm deep and 2.5 metre long
and 1 metre wide.
•Water is sprinkled inside the pit to
achieve the cooling effect.
•After two days neem leaves, dry grass
or sugarcane trash is lined all round
the pit from inside.
•Bamboo chimneys of 1.5 metre
length are placed inside the pit 1 metre
apart for facilitating evaporation of the
moisture deposited due to transpiration
of the stored tubers.
•Pits are then filled with tubers leaving
15 cm on top followed by a one-foot
layer of dry grass. A thatch is provided
over the pit as protection from rain and
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Cold storage
This is the best method of storing potatoes.
At optimum conditions, potatoes should have
good quality after storage of 3 to 5 weeks. Best
temperature and humidity conditions for
potatoes are as follows
Potatoes in the cold storage are spread over the
shelf to a thickness of not more than 30 cm.
Intended Use
Temperature
RH (%)
Seed 2.4 C 95
Table 7°C 98
Processing 8-12°C 95
32. Irradiation
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Under PFAA → Preservation of
Food Adulteration Act, Effective
dose 10 to 15 Krads or 0.10 to
0.15 kGy (Kilo gray) with 10
to 150C.
34. Internal Brown Spot:
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•Due to water deficiency
•Irregular brown spots scattered
through the flesh of tubers
•Never found in vascular region
•Light sandy soil → not irrigated
regularly
35. Greening
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•Due to excessive exposure to sun
rays.
•Appearance of green colour of the
tuber due to presence and
accumulation of solanin (20 mg/100
g is not harmful)
36. Black heart
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•Due to poor ventilation,
hightemp(>330C) during storage and
transportation
•High soil temp during growing &
maturity of tubers in the field
•Black discoloration occurs in the
central tissues of the tuber
37. Hollow heart
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•Hollow heart and brown centre
negatively impact tuber quality.
•Severe hollow heart negatively
impacts the quality of chips
processing potatoes
•However neither disorder is
reported as harmful and neither
affects the tuber’s taste or nutrition.
•It is due to excessive Nitrogen.
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•Chilling injury may follow prolonged
storage of tubers at temperature of
about 00C.
•This result in discoloured blotches in
the flesh of tubers which vary from light
reddish-brown to dark brown diffused
brownish black patches on skin.
•This leads to complete inhibition of
sprouting of the tubers on planting.
39. Insect- pests
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•Potato Tuber Moth (Phthorimaea
operculella)
•Control Measures
•Sown healthy insect free potato tubers.
•Do earthing carefully, so that tuber is not
exposed in the field to ovipositing female
moths
•Spray the crop with carbaryl or nuvacron or
monocil at 0.1 per cent.
•Sort out all affected tubers before storage.
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•Cut Worms (Agrotis spp, Euxoa spp)
•Control Measures
•Spray the crop with dursban 20 EC at 2.5
ml per litre of water or drench the plants,
where the damage is noticed.
•Apply phorate 10 G granules at 10 kg per
hectare on soil around the plants and rake
the soil thereafter.
•Use only well rotten farmyard manure.
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•Green peach Aphids (Myzus persicae)
•Control Measures
•Spray the crop with rogor or metasystox or
nuvacron or monocil at 1 ml per liter of water,
and repeat the spray 10 to 12 days interval
•Cut the haulms in the first week of January to
check the transmission of virus through seed
potatoes.
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•Late Blight (Phytophthora
infestans)
•Control Measures
•Spray the crop thoroughly with
diathane M-45 (2.0 kg/ha) or
diathane Z-78 (2.5 kg/ha) or
difolatan(2.5kg/ha) well in advance
to general appearance of disease
•Avoid applying in excess nitrogen
and irrigation.
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•Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solani)
• Control Measures:
•Always sow certified seeds
•Treat the seed tubers with any organo mercurial
fungicides containing 6 per cent mercury {agallol,
aretan, emisan etc.) for about 5 to 10 minutes before
the planting and also seed tubers before keeping in
the cold storage.
•Dip the tubers in 1.75 per cent solution of sulfuric
acid for 20 minutes.
•Apply Brassicol at 30 kg per hectare in the soil at the
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• Common Scab of Potato (Streptomyces
scabies)
• Control Measures
• Obtain healthy, disease free seed tubers
for planting.
• Disinfect the tubers by dipping in
suspension of mercurial fungicide e.g.
emisan-6 or agallol- 6 at 0.25 per cent
concentration for 5 minutes,
• Follow crop rotation with non-host crops
including beets, carrot etc.
• Maintain soil pH 5.0 to 5.3.
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•Wart Disease of Potato (Synchytrium
endobioticum)
•Control Measures
•Avoid growing potatoes in known wart-
affected soil. Obtain disease free seed
tubers for planting.
•Soil treatment with 5 per cent formalin is
effective but very costly.
•Grow wart tolerance varieties like Kufri
Sherpa, Kufri Jyoti, Kufri Jeevan and Kufri
Muthu.