The Potato Crop : : Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind.

• Author: Campos, Hugo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ortiz, Oscar.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Food Security, Diets and Health -- Chapter 1: Global Food Security, Contributions from Sustainable Potato Agri-Food Systems -- 1.1 Introduction: The Current Situation of Global Hunger, Food Security, and Agricultural Growth -- 1.2 The Potato in the Global Food System -- 1.3 Potato Production and Demand Trends by Region -- 1.4 The Potato Remains a Food Security Crop in the Developing World's "Nutrition Transition" -- 1.5 Policies and Strategies for the Development of the Potato as a Food Security Crop -- 1.6 Food Security Challenges and Perspectives for Potato Research and Development -- 1.6.1 Potato in a Global Food Security Context -- 1.6.2 Research and Innovation for Sustainable Potato Cropping -- 1.6.3 Potato Breeding, a Driving Force Towards More Efficient Potato Production -- 1.6.4 Seed Quality and Availability, the Key to Harvest Success -- 1.6.5 Potato Crop Management and Farming Practices to Increase Productivity and Sustainability -- 1.6.6 Integrating Food Security and Value Chain Development -- 1.6.7 Post-harvest Management: Reducing Food Losses -- 1.7 Concluding Remarks: Towards Future Potato Research for Global Food and Nutrition Security -- References -- Chapter 2: The Potato and Its Contribution to the Human Diet and Health -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Contribution to Diet -- 2.2.1 Energy -- 2.2.2 Carbohydrates -- 2.2.2.1 Starch -- 2.2.2.2 Sugars -- 2.2.3 Protein -- 2.2.4 Lipids -- 2.2.5 Fiber -- 2.2.6 Minerals -- 2.2.7 Vitamins -- 2.2.8 Antioxidants -- 2.2.9 Phenolics -- 2.2.9.1 Chlorogenic Acid -- 2.2.9.2 Anthocyanins -- 2.2.10 Carotenoids -- 2.3 Antioxidant Activity -- 2.4 Glycoalkaloids -- 2.5 Contribution to Health -- 2.5.1 Anticancer Effect -- 2.5.1.1 Role of Potato Antioxidants -- 2.5.1.2 Role of Potato Glycoalkaloids.

2.5.1.3 Role of Potato Fiber -- 2.6 Anti-diabetic and Anti-obesity Effects -- 2.7 Anti-hyperlipidemic, Anti-hypertensive and Anti-inflammatory Effects -- 2.8 Potato and Its Relationship with Cardiovascular Diseases -- 2.9 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Enhancing Value Chain Innovation Through Collective Action: Lessons from the Andes, Africa, and Asia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 General Concepts of Value Chain Development -- 3.3 The Participatory Market Chain Approach: Origin and Characteristics -- 3.4 Examples of Value Chain Intervention Implemented in Several Geographies -- 3.4.1 Peru's Native Potato Revolution -- 3.4.2 Analysis of PMCA Experiences in Different Value Chains in the Andes -- 3.4.2.1 Case 1. Marketing of High Quality Coffee in San Martín, Peru -- 3.4.2.2 Case 2. Development and Marketing of New Dairy Products in Oruro, Bolivia -- 3.4.2.3 Case 3. Development of New Markets for Yams in Northern Colombia -- 3.4.2.4 Case 4. Conservation and Commercialization of Native Potatoes in Northern Potosí, Bolivia -- 3.4.3 The Revalorization of Native Potatoes in Ecuador -- 3.4.4 Building Capacity for Innovation in Ugandan Value Chains -- 3.4.5 The PMCA and Farmer Business Schools in Indonesia -- 3.5 Lessons from Value Chain Approach Applications in Different Contexts -- References -- Part II: Genetic Resources, Genetics and Genetic Improvement -- Chapter 4: Ex Situ Conservation of Potato [Solanum Section Petota (Solanaceae)] Genetic Resources in Genebanks -- 4.1 Ex Situ Conservation of Potato -- 4.2 Collection of New Potato Germplasm -- 4.3 International Fora for Plant Genetic Resources -- 4.4 Methods of Conservation of Potato Germplasm -- 4.5 Characterizing Potato Diversity in Genebanks -- 4.6 Climate Change and Genetic Resources Collections -- 4.7 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 5: The Genes and Genomes of the Potato.

5.1 At the Crossroad of Potato Improvement -- 5.1.1 The Numerous Challenges of Tetraploid Potato Breeding -- 5.1.2 New Potato Breeding Technologies -- 5.2 The Genome of the Potato -- 5.2.1 Cultivated, Wild Potato Genome Sequences Towards a Pan-Genome -- 5.2.2 The Genome Plasticity of the Cultivated Potato -- 5.2.3 New Genomic Tools for Potato Improvement -- 5.3 From Genomes to the Genes of the Potato -- 5.3.1 Gene Discovery Facilitated by the Genome Sequence -- 5.3.2 Progress Toward Next Generation of Potato Varieties -- 5.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: Potato Breeding -- 6.1 Implications of Genetics, Genepools, and Biology for Potato Breeding -- 6.1.1 Key Features -- 6.1.2 Genome Constitution and Variation -- 6.1.3 The Cost of Increasing Genetic Variation -- 6.1.4 Genetic Enhancement -- 6.1.5 Case Study 1: Genetic Enhancement and Incorporation of Iron Content from Diploid into Tetraploid Cultivated Potatoes -- 6.2 Principles of Potato Breeding Methods and Approaches -- 6.2.1 Population Improvement -- 6.2.2 Crossing Parents -- 6.2.3 Mating Designs -- 6.2.3.1 Partial Diallel -- 6.2.3.2 Line × Tester Design -- 6.2.3.3 Design II -- 6.2.4 Breeding Values -- 6.2.5 Early Versus Late Generation Selection -- 6.2.6 Case Study 2: The Use of a Selection Index in Potato Breeding -- 6.2.7 Stability and Adaptation -- 6.2.8 Case Study 3: Breeding and Variety Development in Bangladesh -- 6.2.9 Case Study 4: Collaborative Breeding in Vietnam -- 6.2.10 Importance and Relation of GCA and Heterosis in Potato -- 6.3 Potato Breeding Procedures Overview -- 6.3.1 Hybridization -- 6.3.2 Selection Schemes -- 6.3.3 Data Management and Analytical Tools -- 6.4 Setting Objectives for Potato Breeding -- 6.4.1 Targeting of New Potato Varieties -- 6.4.2 Case Study 5: RTB Priority Setting.

6.4.3 Case Study 6: Adjusting and Ranking Priority Traits in New York (NY) State -- 6.4.4 Product Profiles -- 6.4.5 Tools and Metrics -- 6.4.6 Setting of Breeding Priorities -- 6.4.7 Selection Decisions in Potato Breeding -- 6.4.8 Case Study 7: Profile and Selection Decisions for Chipping Potato for Northeast USA -- 6.4.9 Selection Decisions: Marker-Assisted Selection -- 6.4.9.1 How the New York Program Uses Molecular Markers -- 6.4.10 Breeding Objectives at CIP -- 6.4.10.1 Case Study 8: Agile Potato for Asia -- Product Profile -- Source Population LTVR -- Multilocation Testing and Selection Decisions -- Breeding Priorities -- Multi Trait Selection for Increased Earliness and Tolerance to Abiotic Stress -- Evaluation and Selection Sites -- Trait Research in Support of the Agile Potato -- 6.5 Prospects for True Hybrid Potato Breeding -- 6.6 Variety Testing and Seed Links -- 6.6.1 How the Breeding Program Is Integrated with Seed Production in the State of New York in the United States -- 6.6.2 Regional Trials for Variety Assessment -- 6.6.3 Case Study 9: Regional Trials for Potato Variety Development in the United States -- 6.6.4 How Does the New York Program Decide When to Release a Variety? -- 6.6.5 Case Study 10: All India Coordinated Crop Improvement Project and Release of Kufri-Lima from LTVR Population -- 6.6.6 Variety Release and Registration -- 6.6.7 Regional Frameworks for Variety Release -- 6.7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Genetics and Cytogenetics of the Potato -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Haploids and Disomic Inheritance -- 7.2.1 Further Research and New Evidence on Haploid Origin -- 7.3 Relevance of Haploids in Plant Breeding and Genetics -- 7.4 2n Gametes -- 7.5 Cytoplasm Diversity and Male Sterility -- 7.6 Self-Incompatibility and s Locus Inhibitor Mechanism -- 7.6.1 Self-Compatibility in Breeding.

7.6.2 Interspecific Crosses and Incompatibility -- 7.7 Unilateral Compatibility -- 7.8 Endosperm Balance Number (EBN) and Interspecific Reproductive Barriers -- 7.9 Trait Genetic Research: A Summary Prior to DNA Markers -- 7.10 Cytogenetics for Crossing, Scaling Up and Down Ploidy, and Chromosome Engineering -- 7.11 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III: Pest and Diseases -- Chapter 8: Insect Pests Affecting Potatoes in Tropical, Subtropical, and Temperate Regions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Potato Insect Pests' Geographical Distribution and Invasiveness -- 8.3 Impacts of Climate Change on Potato Insect Pests -- 8.4 Insect Pest Control with Insecticides in Potato -- 8.5 Integrated Pest Management in Potato -- 8.6 Major Pests in Tropical and Subtropical Regions -- 8.6.1 Potato Tuber Moths -- 8.6.2 Pea Leafminer Fly -- 8.6.3 Andean Potato Weevils -- 8.6.4 Potato Psyllid -- 8.6.5 Bud Midge -- 8.7 Major Pests in Temperate Regions -- 8.7.1 Colorado Potato Beetle -- 8.7.2 European Corn Borer -- 8.8 Major Pests Globally Present -- 8.8.1 Aphids -- 8.8.2 Whiteflies -- 8.8.3 Ladybird Beetles -- 8.9 Minor Pests Globally Present -- 8.9.1 Cutworms -- 8.9.2 Armyworms -- 8.9.3 Wireworms -- 8.9.4 Flea Beetles -- 8.9.5 White Grubs -- 8.9.6 Mites -- 8.9.7 Thrips -- 8.9.8 Tomato Tuber Moth -- 8.9.9 Potato Leafhoppers -- 8.9.10 Leaf Beetles -- 8.10 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 9: Fungal, Oomycete, and Plasmodiophorid Diseases of Potato -- 9.1 Late Blight -- 9.1.1 Causal Organism -- 9.1.2 Symptoms -- 9.1.3 Impact -- 9.1.4 Resistance to Late Blight -- 9.1.5 Phytophthora infestans Populations -- 9.1.6 Management -- 9.1.7 Looking Forward -- 9.2 Early Blight -- 9.2.1 Symptoms -- 9.2.2 Causal Organism -- 9.2.3 Impact -- 9.2.4 Pathogen Populations -- 9.2.5 Management -- 9.2.6 Looking Forward -- 9.3 Wart -- 9.3.1 Causal Organism -- 9.3.2 Symptoms.

9.3.3 Impact.