Description
Introduction 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
