Can Potatoes Feed the World?

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world’s fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 374 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2021, with 52.6% from Asia, 27.0% from Europe, 7.6% from Africa, 6.7% from North America, 5.6% from Latin America and 0.5% from Austral...

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Kaituhi matua: Bradshaw, John E. (Author)
Kaituhi rangatōpū: SpringerLink (Online service)
Hōputu: Tāhiko īPukapuka
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
Putanga:1st ed. 2025.
Rangatū:Sustainable Development Goals Series,
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Urunga tuihono:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92890-1
Ngā Tūtohu: Tāpirihia he Tūtohu
Kāore He Tūtohu, Me noho koe te mea tuatahi ki te tūtohu i tēnei pūkete!
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • Let Them Eat Potatoes
  • Wild Relatives
  • Domestication and Cultivation in South America
  • South America to the World
  • Late Blight, Crop Failure and Famine
  • Seed Certification, True Potato Seed and Disease-Free Planting Material
  • Farming, Potential Yields and Increased Production
  • Improved Nutritional Value
  • Conventional Breeding
  • DNA, Gene Editing and Genetic Transformation
  • Conclusions.