The first edition of Potato Health Management is the best-selling title in the APS PRESS Plant Health Management Series, with more than 7,000 copies sold. Pest and pathogen populations have changed since the first edition was printed and a significant amount of new research knowledge has been gained. This second edition addresses those changes and contains up-to-date information recently acquired to help you economically manage potato health.
This highly-anticipated manual tackles the hundreds of problems that affect this important crop including weeds, insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, phytoplasmas, and viruses. This edition is 30% larger than the first and contains more color photographs, which are now interspersed throughout the text. It includes timely new chapters on economics, home gardening, and organic production.
More than 40 experts from the fields of soil science, weed science, nematology, plant pathology, and entomology explain how to manage potato health from seed to storage by a holistic approach. The book provides the most current information on potato production practices, with an emphasis on pest and disease management. The knowledge base provided in this text can be integrated into a comprehensive management scheme in the context of today's agriculture. Using this manual’s integrated strategy for potato health management will help you produce a quality product at a reasonable profit, using an environmentally friendly approach.
Potato Health Management, Second Edition is easy to read and understand. Call-outs of important concepts give quick information to supplement the more-in-depth level of peer-reviewed information. Nearly every chapter includes a boxed briefing on an important concept, helpful test, diagnostic tip, or checklist, adding to your practical understanding of potato health management strategies. The information in each of the book’s 23 chapters is essential to a successful, holistically managed potato health management program.
Cutting edge discussions and details on soil health, managing tubers during harvest and in storage, organic potato production, pesticide resistance management, pesticide application, management of diseases, insects and weeds affecting potato will enlighten commercial potato growers, field consultants and farm advisors, extension specialists, agriculture students, researchers and agribusiness professionals in all aspects of the potato industry. The 42 contributing experts are from the leading potato research facilities in the United States and Canada, but the information in the handbook will provide valuable practical assistance to potato professionals outside of North America as well.
Thank you to the sponsors of Potato Health Management, Second Edition.
BASF
Cerexagri, Inc
Dow AgroSciences
DuPont Crop Protection
E.I. DuPont
Syngenta Crop Protection
Washington State University
Potato Health Management’s 42 contributing authors are recognized authorities with many years of practical experience in their fields:
Juan Manuel Alvarez, Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Aberdeen
Andrei Alyokhin, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono
Zahi K. Atallah, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robin R. Bellinder, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Gilles Boiteau, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Rick A. Boydston, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Prosser, Washington
James M. Crosslin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Prosser, Washington
Thomas F. Cummings, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman
Robert D. Davidson, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University
Solke H. De Boer, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Charlottetown Laboratory, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Galen Dively, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park
Kathy L. Flanders, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Neil C. Gudmestad, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo
Joseph F. Guenthner, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow
Philip B. Hamm, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Hermiston
Larry K. Hiller, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman
Ronda E. Hirnyck, Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Boise
Bryan G. Hopkins, Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Casey W. Hoy, Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Wooster
Pamela J. S. Hutchinson, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Aberdeen
Steven B. Johnson, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Maine, Presque Isle
Linda Kinkel, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
William W. Kirk, Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
N. Richard Knowles, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman
Ann E. MacGuidwin, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jeffrey S. Miller, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Aberdeen
Hassan Mojtahedi, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Prosser, Washington
Thomas M. Mowry, Parma Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Parma
Phillip Nolte, Idaho Falls Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls
Keith S. Pike, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Prosser
Edwin S. Plissey, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Maine, Orono
Mary L. Powelson, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Edward B. Radcliffe, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
David W. Ragsdale, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Randall C. Rowe, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster
R. Thomas Schotzko, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman
Gary A. Secor, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo
Jeff Stark, Idaho Falls Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls
Walter R. Stevenson, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mike Thornton, Parma Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Parma
Robert E. Thornton, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman
Dale Westermann, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Kimberly, Idaho
Jonathan L. Whitworth, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Aberdeen, Idaho