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Roughening of tuber skin due to physiological or environmental causes Hollow heart: Excessively rapid tuber enlargement Internal brown spot = heat necrosis: Oxygen deficiency of tuber accompanying high soil temperature Jelly end rot: Carbohydrate translocation due to second growth Physiological leaf roll: Response to adverse environment Psyllid ...
Fusarium dry rot of potato is a devastating post-harvest losses (vegetables) disease affecting both seed potatoes and potatoes for human consumption. [3] Dry rot causes the skin of the tuber to wrinkle. The rotted areas of the potato may be brown, grey, or black and the rot creates depressions in the surface of the tuber.
To help you stock up wisely, we’ve already covered how to choose and store potatoes and recently shared the easiest way to remove the skin from a boiled potato without a peeler. And today, we ...
Climacteric fruits ripen after harvesting and so some fruits for market are picked green (e.g. bananas and tomatoes). Underripe fruits are also fibrous, not as juicy, and have tougher outer flesh than ripe fruits (see Mouth feel). Eating unripe fruit can lead to stomachache or stomach cramps, and ripeness affects the palatability of fruit.
An additional problem is the co-infection of two or more viruses on the same plants. In fact, the joint occurrence of PVX and PVY, or either or both of them with PLRV or Potato virus A , produces much more severe symptoms than separate infection of each. The magnitude of economic losses associated with this synergistic effect depends on the ...
To freeze potatoes, cut them the way you intend to use them — sliced for scalloped potatoes, grated for hash browns, cubed for home fries — and partially cook them in boiling water.
Non-climacteric fruits ripen without ethylene and respiration bursts, the ripening process is slower, and for the most part they will not be able to ripen if the fruit is not attached to the parent plant. [3] Examples of climacteric fruits include apples, bananas, melons, apricots, tomatoes, as well as most stone fruits.
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