Potato: Improvement Production and Utilization Technologies: An Approach to Doubling Farmers' Income

Contents: Preface. 1. Potato: An Overview of National and International Perspective/N.K. Pandey, Dalamu and Jagesh Kumar Tiwari. 2. Role of AICRP (Potato) and True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology in Potato/Vinod Kumar, Dalamu and S. Sood. 3. Molecular Breeding for Biotic Stresses Resistance in Potato/Vinay Bhardwaj. 4. Breeding for Processing Potato and Quality Parameters/V.K. Gupta. 5. Nutrient Management in Potato Cultivation/Manoj Kumar. 6. Water Management in Seed and Ware Potato Production/Name Singh. 7. Potato Germplasm, DUS Characterization and Plant Variety and Farmers Right/Dalamu, Babita Chaudhary, J.K. Tiwari, Vinod Kumar and A.K. Sharma. 8. Somatic Hybridization in Potato Improvement/Jagesh K. Tiwari, Rasna Zinta, S.K. Luthra, Vinod Kumar, Tanuja Buckseth, Dalamu and R.K. Singh. 9. Diploid F1 Hybrid TPS Potato Breeding/Salej Sood, Vinay Bhardwaj, Hemant Kardile, Vikas Mangal and Vinod Kumar. 10. Potato Nematodes Management/Aarti Bairwa, H.M. Priyank, E.P. Venkatasalam and Anuj Bhatnagar. 11. Transgenics and Genome Editing in Potato Improvement/S. Sundaresha. 12. Status of Adoption of Potato Technologies and Varieties in India/Pynbianglang Kharumnuid and N.K. Pandey. 13. Impact of Climate Change on Potato: Current Scenario and Adaptation Strategies/V.K. Dua. 14. Soil and Plant Tests for Fertilizer Recommendation/Jagdev Sharma and V.K. Dua. 15. Post-Harvest Management of Potatoes/Brajesh Singh. 16. Application of Proteomics and Metabolomics in Potato/Som Dutt, Sushil S. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Dharmendra Kumar and Brajesh Singh. 17. Nutritional Value and Biochemical Analysis of Potato/Sushil S. Changan, Brajesh Singh, Somdutt, Arvind Jaiswal, D. Kumar and Milan K. Lal. 18. Viral Diseases and their Management in Potato Production/Ravinder Kumar 19. Fungal Diseases of Potato and their Management/Sanjeev Sharma. 20. Soil and Tuber Borne Diseases of Potato and their Management/Vinay Sagar. 21. Seed Potato Production Scenario in India/Rajesh K. Singh, Tanuja Buckseth, J.K. Tiwari, A.K. Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Manoj Kumar and N.K. Pandey. 22. Production of Disease-Free Planting Material through Hi-Tech System including Aeroponics/Tanuja Buckseth, R.K. Singh, J.K. Tiwari, Vinod Kumar, A.K. Sharma and N.K. Pandey. 23. Farm Mechanization and Drone Technology in Potato/Brajesh Nare and Sukhwinder Singh. 24. Agro-techniques for Quality Seed Potato Production/Ashwani Kumar Sharma. 25. Functional Genomics for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Potato/Jagesh K. Tiwari, Tanuja Buckseth, Rasna Zinta, Kanika Thakur, R.K. Singh, Devendra Kumar, V.K. Dua and V. Kumar. 26. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Potato Cultivation/Sanjay Rawal and Pooja Mankar. 27. Breeding Potato Varieties for Different Agro-Climatic Zones of India/S.K. Luthra. 28. Potato Breeding for Abiotic Stresses/Devender Kumar. 29. Economics, Marketing and Export of Potato in India/Nalini Ranjan Kumar and N.K. Pandey. 30. Insect Pest Management in Potato/Anuj Bhatnagar, S. Subhash, Subhash Katare, Kailash C. Naga and Aarti Bairwa. 31. An Overview of Virus-Vector Interaction with Reference to Whitefly-Begomoviruses System/Kailash C. Naga. 32. Protocols for Analysis Physio-Biochemical Parameters in Potato/Dharmendra Kumar, Som Dutt, Sushil K. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Asha Thakur, Vandana and Brajesh Singh. 33. Ploidy Estimation in Potato/Hemant Kardile and Rahul. 34. Micropropagation in Potato/Tanuja Buckseth, Sumita Sharma, R.K. Singh and J.K. Tiwari. 35. Soil and Plant Sample Test/Sushil Kumar and Vineeta Sharma. 36. DNA Fingerprinting and Gene Expression Analysis in Potato/C.M. Bist, Rahul, Sundaresha and J.K. Tiwari. 37. Protoplast Isolation and Fusion in Potato/Jagesh K. Tiwari and Rasna Zinta. 38. Diagnostics of Potato Viruses/Ravinder Kumar, RK Tiwari, Chandan Maharana, T. Kochhar and Rajinder Kumar. Colour Plates I-XX. Index. Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. The book Potato: Improvement.