Evaluation of Early and Late Harvested Potatoes for Yield, Quality and Storability

Abstract

Potato is an important food crop which is also valued in processing industries. Present experiment was undertaken to evaluate yield performance and storagability on 22 genotypes of potato along with quality parameters related to processing as well as cuisine purpose. The experiment was conducted in the field and laboratory of Dept. of Plant breeding, BCKV in 2011-12. In the study some of characters were measured such as dry matter, tuber shape and depth of eyes, chips color and quality, cooking type, texture firmness, flavor, starch and total sugar content. Genotypes G-4, Kufri Khyati, K. Chipsona-3 and PH-3 were found to be promising for their yield. Kufri Chipsona-3 and K-22 was found to be superior for processing purposes as these were associated with a number of desirable quality parameters like high dry matter content and starch content, low total sugar content and less blackening effect on cooked potato after cooling with persistence of good chip colour for a long period. For cuisine purposes K. Sadabahar and K. Jyoti was found to be most promising as they had tubers of good shape and shallow depth eyes, acceptable flesh colour and highly acceptable cooked potatoes. The varieties like K. Khyati, K. Pukhraj, K. Ashoka, PH-4 can be considered to increase flavor of cooked potatoes.

Assessment of Varietal Performance in Diverse Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Genotypes

“…This may be due to processing should be meet the minimum requirement such as shape, size texture, dry matter, reducing sugar and starch. These finding are in agreement with the findings reported by Muller et al (2009); Gautam et al (2012); Patel et al (2013) and Das et al (2014).…”

Evaluation of Biochemical Properties and Sensory Parameters of Short Duration Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Hybrids and Varieties

“…Overall acceptability of boiled potatoes, lowest acceptability was registered in Jacob 2005 and higher in variety Cipra. Similar trend was also reported by Luitel et al[31] and Das et al[32],[33].…”

Performance of Potato Varieties for Growth, Yield and Yield Attributing in South Eastern Rajasthan

“…Good crop growth is observed when days are sunny and nights are cool (Ghosh et al, 2000). Low temperature, high light intensity and short days are conducive for early initiation of tuberization and subsequent tuber development (Das et al, 2014). Minimum of 70-90 days of favorable cool season is required to obtain an economical potato yield (Mehta et al, 2018).…”