potato producer Articles
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Introgession of wild species germplasm with extreme resistance to cold sweetening into the cultivated potato
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) breeders are interested in developing chipping cultivars that can be stored at cold temperatures to reduce storage losses and increase profitability for potato producers. Commercial cultivars accumulate reducing sugars during cold storage, resulting in unacceptably dark chips when processed. In this study, we have identified diploid wild Solanum species accessions ...
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Second generation European corn borer injury and Irish potato physiology, yield, and quality
European corn borer (ECB) [Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner)] (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) is known to infest Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) but only causes economic damage during the first generation in East Coast potato producing areas. However, in Nebraska, second generation ECB infest potato plants during the bulking period and may reduce yield and/or potato quality. Experiments were conducted in ...
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Microbial communities of Solanum tuberosum and magainin-producing transgenic lines
Antimicrobial peptide magainin II, isolated from the skin of the African clawed toad, has shown activity in vitro against a range of micro-organisms. Transgenic potato lines expressing a synthetic magainin gene show improved resistance to the bacterial plant pathogen, Erwinia carotovora. Culturable bacterial and fungal communities associated with magainin-producing potato plants were compared ...
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How Much Water Is Really Used In Food And Beverage Production?
People concerned about their water footprint often make an effort to turn the faucet off quickly, take shorter showers, and cut back on watering the lawn. While these efforts are important, they ignore one of the biggest water-use culprits found in virtually every household: food and beverages. The production of food and beverages is a water-intensive process. According to the Water Footprint ...
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Using Technology for Complete Farm Management - Case Study
Challenge This case is about one of the world’s largest producers of potato specialties company based in India. The company leases plots for farming and has 2500+ plots spread across an area of 5200 +acres. Earlier, they used to record farm data manually, thus creating multiple inconsistent entries. A check on practices such as dehaulming & rouging, adoption of right package of ...
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What is the Market Prospect of Sweet Potato Deep Processing?
Sweet potato is one of the world's major food crops and one of the four major crops in China. China is still in its infancy in the research and comprehensive development of the sweet potato utilization project. Most of the sweet potato products stay in the rough processing of sweet potato, sweet potato vermicelli and sweet potato starch. The value that sweet potato is not well known to most ...
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Potato chip plant removes 104,000 Gallons of oil from Wastewater annually
Oil skimmer reduces cost, increases performance and decreases material waste Food manufacturers are tasked with managing oil in the wastewater from their manufacturing processes on an ongoing basis. Recently, a privately-held snack food manufacturer that produces potato chips established a goal to increase chip production by 20 percent. However, increasing production also meant increasing ...
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Moisture measurement of potato powder - Case Study
Client: Animal feed producer (France) Product: Potato powder Material humidity: 8-9 % Installation location: on a slide What measuring process was used previously: with a hand measuring device According to the client, the M-Sens system offers the following advantages over the formerly used methods: Continuous humidity measurement Independent of the material colour ...
By ENVEA
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Potato Cooked
A large producer of pre-cooked potatoes was having a problem disposing of the wastewater from the washing and cooking process. The water was to be used on the growing field, but had a COD, TSS and nitrogen content in excess of allowable limits, see chart below. The water was at a pH of 6.5, so no pH adjustment was necessary. The stream was treated with Floccin 1105 at a dosage rate of 400 ...
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What is the input cost of the potato chip production line?
The potato chip production line is used to produce the familiar fried potato chips. The production line contains a series of potato chip processing machines. Potato chips making machine for the factory has many advantages such as convenient use and energy-saving and has been widely used in recent years. Many people who invest in potato chip production businesses need to use potato chip ...
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How to get seed rates spot on for target market and harvest scheduling
Potato agronomy is complex and requires a lot of planning, monitoring and evaluation throughout the production process. CPM finds out how digital agronomy tool Crop4Sight can help in all three areas as preparation for the 2023 season gathers paceIf you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail – an adage that is very relevant when thinking about potato crop establishment, with half the agronomy done ...
By Crop4Sight
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