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Potatoes growing season

Strong chemical defenses of reproductive units such as seeds, bulbs, or tubers, as opposed to the vegetative parts, are commonplace. For instance, potatoes, which have to survive in the ground from one growing season to the next. [Pg.300]

There are a number of cultural and environmental conditions which prevail during the growing season and strongly affect the processing quality of potatoes climate, rainfall, irrigation and soil moisture, soil type, time of planting and harvesting, kind and amount of fertilizers used, and control of insects and diseases. [Pg.169]

Potatoes long and spindly. Causes Potassium deficiency growing season too short. Check for deficiency with a soil test and amend soil as necessary. Sweet potatoes need a long growing season. Prevent problems by planting cultivars suited to your region. [Pg.221]

Controlling certain diseases may not be worthwhile toward the end of the growing season. For example, potatoes grown in the North can be attacked by late blight in September and suffer no reduction in yield, because the leaves are ceasing to function anyway. This same severity of blight infection in June, however, could result in no potatoes at all. [Pg.368]

During the growing season of potatoes, three distinct stages in crop growth can be distinguished ... [Pg.32]

Later in the growing season, when plant stems lie between the ridges (stage C) LAI falls again to 1-2. Deposition on the potato plant is also reduced and, for conventional spraying, it is around 56% (Porskamp et al., 1993a Wretblad, 1997 Zande et al, 1994a, 1998, 1999, 2000). [Pg.33]


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