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Research Project: Maximizing the Impact of Potato Genebank Resources: Development and Evaluation of a Wild Species Genotype Diversity Panel

Location: Vegetable Crops Research

Title: Strategies for coping with frost damage

Author
item Bethke, Paul
item FISHLER, TROY - University Of Wisconsin

Submitted to: Common Tater
Publication Type: Trade Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/8/2018
Publication Date: 12/1/2018
Citation: Bethke, P.C., Fishler, T. 2018. Strategies for coping with frost damage. The Badger Common'Tater. 70:16-19.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Potato tubers exposed to freezing temperatures prior to harvest may suffer from frost damage. Tubers with frost damage typically have wet patches under the skin that result from the rupture of frozen cells. Frost-damaged areas are potential sites for entry and development of diseases. Strategies for the management of frost-damaged potatoes are described in this article. These include removing damaged material prior to storing or shipping, establishing storage conditions that promote wound-healing, avoiding storage conditions that promote and spread disease, treatment with chemistries that reduce the spread of disease, and timely shipping of stored potatoes.