Potatoes storage

Sowokinos, J. R., Orr, P. H., Knoper, J. A., Yarns, J. L. (1987). Influence of potato storage and handling stress, sugars, chip quality and integrity of the starch (amyloplast) membrane. Am. Potato J., 64,213-225. Spychalla,N. R, Desborough, S. L. (1990). Fatty acids, membrane permeability, and sugars of stored potato tubers. Plant Physiol., 94, 1207-1213. 

Booth, R. H., Shaw, R. L. (1981). Principles of Potato Storage. Lima, Reru, International Rotato Centre, 105. 

Brook, R. C., Pick, R. J., Forbush, T. D. (1995). Potato storage design and management. American Potato Journal, 72,463 79. 

Buitelaar, N. (1987). Sprout inhibition in ware potato storage. In A. Rastovski, A. van Es (Eds.), Storage of potatoes (pp. 331-341). PUDOC, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 

Lewis, M. D. (2007). Practical aspects of potato storage management. International potato processing and storage convention, October 10-12, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

Rommens, C. M., Ye, J., Richael, C., Swords, K. (2006). Improving potato storage and processing characteristics through all-native DNA transformation. J. Agric. Food. Chem., 54(26), 9882-9887. 

Vokou, D., Vareltzidou, S., Katinalds, P. (1993). Effects of aromatic plants on potato storage sprout suppression and antimicrobial activity. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 47, 223-235. 

Potatoes are cultivated in areas where they can be stored throughout the winter in temperature-conditioned sheds. For economical potato processing, the length of the campaign should be an optimum between the capacity of the factory, and thus the costs of investment and processing, and starch losses during potato storage, particularly... 

St. Pierre, B., and Brisson, N. 1995. Induction of the plastidic starch phosphorylase gene in potato storage sink tissue Effect of sucrose and evidence for coordinated regulation of phosphorylase and starch biosynthetic genes. Planta. 195, 339-344. 

Potatoes, storage, raw Vegetables, raw and frozen Fruits and berries, raw/flesh... 

Wilson DD, Son KC, Severson RF, Kays SJ, (1990) Effect of a pentacycUc triterpene from sweet potato storage roots on oviposition by the sweetpotato weevil (Coleoptera Curcuhonidae). Environ Entomol 19 1663-1665... 

The compound is not effective when appHed as a preharvest dormancy agent on potatoes and it should not be used until injuries to the tuber coat have healed. Neither should it be appHed until some suberization has occurred, generally two weeks after storage at >10° C (23). CIPC is widely used outside the United States on a number of crops as a herbicide. 

Diphenylamine inhibits the development of scald disease during prolonged cold storage of apples and pears (42—45). It prolongs the fresh appearance of cut snapdragons (46), controls weather fleck in tobacco, inhibits algae formation, and shows growth inhibitory activity in potatoes (47). 

Most staple foods such as meat, white bread, potatoes and other vegetables, and most fmits are not artificially colored siace their natural appearance is perfecdy acceptable. Foods are usually colored because they have no natural color of their own, because their natural color was destroyed or drastically altered as a result of processiag or storage, or because their color varies greatly with the season of the year or their geographic origin. Thus, colorants are added to foods to make them appear the way the customer wants and expects them to appear. 

Potatoes will start to sprout after a long period in storage. This can be checked by spraying the freshly lifted tubers with a chemical sprout depressant. 

Potatoes and onions coming out of storage will collect condensation from the ambient air and must be left to dry or they will rot. 

A few products, such as bananas, tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and some crops of potato, are better kept at higher temperatures. These conditions vary with the variety, state of ripeness when picked and required time of storage. 

Ascorbic acid is photosensitive and unstable in aqueous solution at room temperature. During storage of foods, vitamin C is inactivated by oxygen. This process is accelerated by heat and the presence of catalysts. Ascorbic acid concentration in human organs is highest in adrenal and pituitary glands, eye lens, liver, spleen, and brain. Potatoes, citrus fruits, blade currants, sea buckthorns, acerola, rose hips, and red paprika peppers are among the most valuable vitamin C sources [1,2]. 

Dikshit AK, Misra SS. 1985. Residues of endosulfan and carbaryl in potato tubers at harvest and after storage. Indian Journal of Plant Protection 13 105-108. 

Terahara, N. et al.. Six diacylated anthocyanins from the storage roots of purple sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 63, 1420, 1999. 

Such observations led to the hypothesis that regulated expression of PL3 in transgenic potatoes could contribute to enhanced tissue disintegration during storage or thermal treatment. This report addresses the properties of several independent transgenic potato plant lines that express PL3, either constitutively or tuber-specific. We also describe the results obtained following application of Erwinia bacteria to wounded potato tubers. 

Rosahl S, Schmidt R, Schell J, Willmitzer L (1986) Isolation and characterization of a gene from Solanum tuberosum encoding patatin, the major storage protein in potato tubers. Mol Gen Genet 203 214-220... 

Storage stability studies for carfentrazone-ethyl compounds on crop matrices have shown a pattern of stability for at least 7-24 months, depending on the study program or the maximum sample storage interval for the study. Carfentrazone-ethyl was not stable in field corn starch, potato tuber and bovine kidney. The residue results indicated that a significant portion of carfentrazone-ethyl was converted to C-Cl-PAc in these matrices however, the total amount of carfentrazone-ethyl and C-Cl-PAc accounted for the original spiking level. Since both carfentrazone-ethyl and C-Cl-PAc were determined in these stability studies, the instability of carfentrazone-ethyl was not of any concern. 

In 1995 potatoes and rice were stored in an abandoned road tunnel in Japan. At the end of the winter the tunnel was filled with snow that was covered with aluminum coated tarpaulins. The products were stored both beside the snow piles and under the tarpaulins. Rice from the same harvest was stored in a grain magazine and at a research centre for comparison. The rice in the tunnel had best quality after two month. The potatoes under the tarpaulins kept its quality longest and it was found that the storage method was feasible over the whole year (Suzuki et al., 1997). 

Destefano-Beltran, L., D. Knauber et al. (2006). Effects of postharvest storage and dormancy status on ABA content, metabolism, and expression of genes involved in ABA biosynthesis and metabolism in potato tuber tissues. Plant Mol. Biol. 61(4-5) 687-697. 

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