Potato Ecology And modelling of crops under conditions limiting growth

1. Front Matter

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2. Models in research and education, planning and practice

   • F. W. T. Penning De Vries, R. Rabbinge

   Pages 1-18

3. Crop physiology of potato (Solanum tuberosum): responses to photoperiod and temperature relevant to crop modelling

   • P. C. Struik, E. E. Ewing

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4. Modelling development and growth of the potato crop influenced by temperature and daylength: LINTUL-POTATO

   • P. L. Kooman, A. J. Haverkort

   Pages 41-59

5. Physiology of crop response to drought

   • R. A. Jefferies

   Pages 61-74

6. Modelling water and nitrogen uptake of a potato crop growing on a ridge

   • P. De Willigen, M. Heinen, B. J. Van Den Broek

   Pages 75-88

7. Physiological effects of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature on growth and water relations of crop plants

   • Siebe C. Van De Geijn, Paul Dijkstra

   Pages 89-99

8. Simulated effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentration and temperature on the productivity of potato

   • A. H. C. M. Schapendonk, C. S. Pot, J. Goudriaan

   Pages 101-113

9. Nitrogen and the growth of potato crops

   • J. Vos

   Pages 115-128

10. Modelling to optimize the use of both water and nitrogen by the potato crop

    • D. K. L. MacKerron, G. J. Lewis

    Pages 129-146

11. Simulation of nitrogen uptake from soil and partitioning in potato plants: model description and sensitivity analysis

    • Svetlana Fishman, B. Bar-Yosef

    Pages 147-166

12. Crop physiological responses to infection by potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.)

    • A. J. Haverkort, D. L. Trudgill

    Pages 167-183

13. Modelling the interaction between potato crops and cyst nematodes

    • M. Van Oijen, F. J. De Ruijter, R. J. F. Van Haren

    Pages 185-195

14. A growth model for plants attacked by nematodes

    • C. H. Schomaker, T. H. Been, J. W. Seinhorst

    Pages 197-213

15. Factors involved in the development of potato late blight disease (Phytophthora infestans)

    • J. G. Harrison

    Pages 215-236

16. Simulation models of potato late blight

    • M. Van Oijen

    Pages 237-250

17. Life cycle and ecology of Verticillium dahliae in potato

    • L. Mol, A. J. Termorshuizen

    Pages 251-263

18. Modelling the dynamics of Verticillium dahliae

    • A. J. Termorshuizen, L. Mol

    Pages 265-280

19. Use of a crop-growth model coupled to an epidemic model to forecast yield and virus infection in seed potatoes

    • Thomas Nemecek, Jacques O. Derron, Andreas Fischlin, Olivier Roth

    Pages 281-290

20. Prescriptive crop and pest management software for farming systems involving potatoes

    • W. R. Stevenson, J. A. Wyman, K. A. Kelling, L. K. Binning, D. Curwen, T. R. Connell et al.

    Pages 291-303

Potato is the fourth major staple food in the world and is still rapidly gaining importance, especially in the tropics. In May, 1994 the second international potato modelling conference was held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, as a summerschool of the C. T. de Wit Graduate School. The conference was sponsored by DLO, SCRI, SSCR, W AU and the LEB-Fund. Over 80 scientists participated, coming from 16 countries. Of each crop physiological and modelling subject, a leading scientist was requested to write a review of the most recent developments in his or her field. The reviews, with highlights from the authors' own work, are such that the physiological work described is of interest to the modeller and the modelling work to the crop physiologist. Applications of the quantitative approach are also reviewed in the concluding chapters that deal with decision support systems, breeding and agro-ecological zoning. An outstanding point of this book is that both the crop ecology and the modelling of a broad range of biotic and abiotic factors are treated by scientists representing groups which are specialized in the subject. The two related disciplines met during the conference and thus wrote the chapters with each other's interest in mind. The book highlights the limitations for potato growth and development from the viewpoints of both the crop physiologist and the crop-systems analyst.

• ecology
• environment
• nitrogen
• physiology
• sustainability
• temperature

• DLO-Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  A. J. Haverkort

• Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK

  D. K. L. MacKerron

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