Tuber yield and irrigation water productivity in early potatoes as affected by irrigation regime

Divergent strategies displayed by potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars to cope with soil drought

“…In the potato, yield is more affected by water deficiency during tuber formation than any other developmental stage (Ierna & Mauromicale, ; Obidiegwu et al., ). Therefore, soil drought applied 2 weeks after the initiation of the tuberization phase mainly reduced tuber size and tuber fresh mass (Tab.…”

Use of proximal sensing and vegetation indexes to detect the inefficient spatial allocation of drip irrigation in a spot area of tomato field crop

“…has a major dominance in the global market, but few studies have been conducted on growth and physiology of field-grown tomato under varying soil water availabilities (Patanè et al 2011;Ierna and Mauromicale 2012). Field studies have been predominantly directed toward elucidating the effects of soil moisture variability on fruit yield and quality (Machado and Oliveira 2005;Marouelli and Silva 2007).…”

Genetically biodiverse potato cultivars grown on a suitable agricultural soil under compost amendment or mineral fertilization: yield, quality, genetic and epigenetic variations, soil properties

“…Potato is an important part of the diet for more than a billion people worldwide, and global crop production exceeds 300 million Mg (International Potato Center, CIP, http://www.cipotato.org/potato). In the Mediterranean basin, potato cultivation occupies an overall area of about 1 million ha and produces 28 million Mg of tubers (Ierna and Mauromicale, 2012). Potato is largely cultivated in southern Italy, especially in Apulia, Sicily and Campania regions, where production cycle occurs in spring-summer and in some cases in winter-spring time (Ierna and Mauromicale, 2012).…”

“…In the Mediterranean basin, potato cultivation occupies an overall area of about 1 million ha and produces 28 million Mg of tubers (Ierna and Mauromicale, 2012). Potato is largely cultivated in southern Italy, especially in Apulia, Sicily and Campania regions, where production cycle occurs in spring-summer and in some cases in winter-spring time (Ierna and Mauromicale, 2012). Potatoes are considered typical regional products and are also included by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture in the list of "traditional food products" (Adamo et al, 2012); they are characterized by specific properties, such as low dry matter and high reducing sugar content.…”

“…Studies comparing the productivity (Hagman et al, 2009), the yield quality, in terms of dry matter (Carillo et al, 2012) and nutritionally important compounds (Carillo et al, 2012;Lombardo et al, 2012), under organic cultivation practices with respect to conventional agriculture, are reported in literature, although no clear trend was ascertained. It was established that potato yields and tuber quality can vary according to cultivar (Arvanitoyannis et al, 2008) and cultivation system, but they are also highly responsive to water availability (Ierna and Mauromicale, 2012), nitrogen dynamics (Haase et al, 2007), cover crop (Canali et al, 2010) and fertilizations (Uchino et al, 2012). A good alternative to traditional farming practices, also for potato production, could be provided by the use of compost obtained from the organic fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW).…”