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Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality of Potato: (Immature early
)crop

Trevor V. Suslow and Ron Voss,

Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

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Maturity Indices





8 % 98 - 95 .
15
) 5 - 1 ( .

Quality indices
%80 - 70
) (

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USDA
US grades ) No.2 , commercial , No. 1 , Extra No. 1 :
(1991 ) (Unclassified US
standards

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Optimum Storage

%
98 7
95 15 - 10 ) (
95 20 - 15

5 - 3
13 - 10
)(
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Rates of Respiration

/CO2 *

86 5
11 7 10
16 7 15
23 - 9 20

( /CO2 * 440
/BTU /. 122 / / .

:
/ .

Rates of Ethylene Production

1 / * 20 .
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Responses to Ethylene


3 - 2 5
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Responses to CA
CA MA
)( % 5 . ) (% 1.5
) (% 10
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Physiological Disorders
:Black heart
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15 .
.

:Black spot

) (
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72 - 24
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:Chilling Injury
mahogany
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:Greening ) 2 - 1(
) (

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glaycoalkaloids Solanine
) ) ( (
glaycoalkaloids
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:Internal Brown spot

/

Hollow heart .

Physical Disorders



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:Brown Spot
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:Freezing Injury 0.8 -

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Pathological Disorders

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: Bacterial Soft rot
Erwinia carotorvra subsp. carotorvra and subsp. atroseptica

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Ralstonia ( ex Pseudomonas , ex Burkholderi ) Solanacearum,

) *Phytophthora infestans ( Fusarium spp.
Phytophthora spp. water rot
Pyhtium spp. Pink Eye
Pseudomonas fluorescens Gray mold Botrytis
* .

Special Considerations
" Earthy odor
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