This book concentrates on the essential principles of storage, grading and dispatch of potatoes. The focus is the potato tuber and all of the influences that can affect its final quality when sold. Background information such as the tuber's physical development, its metabolic processes, its susceptibility to damage and disease are provided where this aids understanding as to why stored crops develop the problems they do.
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FF005 - Field Crops, (New March 2000) FF060 - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry QQ050 - Crop Produce QQ110 - Food Storage and Preservation QQ500 - Food Composition and Quality