Potato Production Worldwide

Table of Contents

1. History, production, current trends, and future prospects 2. Potato taxonomy and wild relatives 3. Plant development in potato 4. Environmental requirements of potato and abiotic stress factors 5. Water management in potato 6. Nutrient management in potato 7. Weed management in potato 8. Insect-pests of potato: importance and management 9. Fungal, oomycete, and plasmodiophorid diseases of potato and their control 10. Bacterial diseases of potato and their control 11. Virus diseases of potato and their control 12. Nematodes of potato and their management 13. Seed potato production, certification, and trade 14. Postharvest physiology and storage of potato 15. Recent trends in genetics studies and molecular breeding of potato 16. Role of genetic engineering in improving potato production 17. Smart agriculture practices in potato production 18. Potato production in China 19. Potato production in Russia and Ukraine 20. Potato production in the United States and Canada 21. Potato production in Eastern Europe (Romania, Republic of Moldova, Russia, and Hungary) 22. Potato production in Bangladesh 23. Potato production in South America 24. An overview of potato production in Africa 25. Conclusions and future prospective in potato production

Authors

Mehmet Emin Caliskan Department of Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde �mer Halisdemir University, Nigde, T�rkiye. Mehmet Emin �aliskan has been a professor of agricultural sciences since 2009. He has been a member of The European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) and The Potato Association of America (PAA) since 1997 and has been representative of the EAPR in Turkey since 2006. Additionally he was head of the Agronomy and Physiology section of EAPR during 2008-2104. Potato (production, physiology, and breeding) has been the main focus of his research since the start of his research and academic career. He has more than 100 scientific publications on various aspects of potato research and was an executive of the first project on the Development of National Seed Potato Production System in Turkey. He also advises various companies on seed potato production, cultivar development and Research & Development strategies. Allah Bakhsh Assistant Professor, Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Allah Bakhsh is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey. He received his PhD in Molecular Biology from National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research at Agricultural Biotechnology Division, Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara, Turkey. He received the Early Stage Career Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research at Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. Dr. Bakhsh's current work is focused on the utilization of modern molecular tools to encode insect resistance trait in Potato and Cotton. He has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, written 10 book chapters. He is also an academic editor of PLOS ONE and reviewer for more than 10 peer-reviewed international journals. Khawar Jabran Associate Professor, Department of Plant Production and Technologies, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Turkiye. Dr. Khawar Jabran is actively involved in research, teaching and scientific write-up in the discipline of agriculture. His research work is focused on increasing crop yields through improved crop management practices, and management of abiotic and biotic stresses. Recently he is based in a potato growing region, hence, potato is a major focus of his research work. He has more than 150 publications that include research and review articles in peer reviewed journals, edited books, edited conference proceedings, edited special issues in the international scientific journal, papers in the conference proceeding, book chapters in the edited books and popular articles related to agriculture. His editorial roles include Associate Editor in Crop Protection, and Consulting Editor in Sugar Tech.