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Contents: Preface. 1. Potato: An Overview of National and International Perspective/N.K. Pandey, Dalamu and Jagesh Kumar Tiwari. 2. Role of AICRP (Potato) and True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology in Potato/Vinod Kumar, Dalamu and S. Sood. 3. Molecular Breeding for Biotic Stresses Resistance in Potato/Vinay Bhardwaj. 4. Breeding for Processing Potato and Quality Parameters/V.K. Gupta. 5. Nutrient Management in Potato Cultivation/Manoj Kumar. 6. Water Management in Seed and Ware Potato Production/Name Singh. 7. Potato Germplasm, DUS Characterization and Plant Variety and Farmers Right/Dalamu, Babita Chaudhary, J.K. Tiwari, Vinod Kumar and A.K. Sharma. 8. Somatic Hybridization in Potato Improvement/Jagesh K. Tiwari, Rasna Zinta, S.K. Luthra, Vinod Kumar, Tanuja Buckseth, Dalamu and R.K. Singh. 9. Diploid F1 Hybrid TPS Potato Breeding/Salej Sood, Vinay Bhardwaj, Hemant Kardile, Vikas Mangal and Vinod Kumar. 10. Potato Nematodes Management/Aarti Bairwa, H.M. Priyank, E.P. Venkatasalam and Anuj Bhatnagar. 11. Transgenics and Genome Editing in Potato Improvement/S. Sundaresha. 12. Status of Adoption of Potato Technologies and Varieties in India/Pynbianglang Kharumnuid and N.K. Pandey. 13. Impact of Climate Change on Potato: Current Scenario and Adaptation Strategies/V.K. Dua. 14. Soil and Plant Tests for Fertilizer Recommendation/Jagdev Sharma and V.K. Dua. 15. Post-Harvest Management of Potatoes/Brajesh Singh. 16. Application of Proteomics and Metabolomics in Potato/Som Dutt, Sushil S. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Dharmendra Kumar and Brajesh Singh. 17. Nutritional Value and Biochemical Analysis of Potato/Sushil S. Changan, Brajesh Singh, Somdutt, Arvind Jaiswal, D. Kumar and Milan K. Lal. 18. Viral Diseases and their Management in Potato Production/Ravinder Kumar 19. Fungal Diseases of Potato and their Management/Sanjeev Sharma. 20. Soil and Tuber Borne Diseases of Potato and their Management/Vinay Sagar. 21. Seed Potato Production Scenario in India/Rajesh K. Singh, Tanuja Buckseth, J.K. Tiwari, A.K. Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Manoj Kumar and N.K. Pandey. 22. Production of Disease-Free Planting Material through Hi-Tech System including Aeroponics/Tanuja Buckseth, R.K. Singh, J.K. Tiwari, Vinod Kumar, A.K. Sharma and N.K. Pandey. 23. Farm Mechanization and Drone Technology in Potato/Brajesh Nare and Sukhwinder Singh. 24. Agro-techniques for Quality Seed Potato Production/Ashwani Kumar Sharma. 25. Functional Genomics for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Potato/Jagesh K. Tiwari, Tanuja Buckseth, Rasna Zinta, Kanika Thakur, R.K. Singh, Devendra Kumar, V.K. Dua and V. Kumar. 26. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Potato Cultivation/Sanjay Rawal and Pooja Mankar. 27. Breeding Potato Varieties for Different Agro-Climatic Zones of India/S.K. Luthra. 28. Potato Breeding for Abiotic Stresses/Devender Kumar. 29. Economics, Marketing and Export of Potato in India/Nalini Ranjan Kumar and N.K. Pandey. 30. Insect Pest Management in Potato/Anuj Bhatnagar, S. Subhash, Subhash Katare, Kailash C. Naga and Aarti Bairwa. 31. An Overview of Virus-Vector Interaction with Reference to Whitefly-Begomoviruses System/Kailash C. Naga. 32. Protocols for Analysis Physio-Biochemical Parameters in Potato/Dharmendra Kumar, Som Dutt, Sushil K. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Asha Thakur, Vandana and Brajesh Singh. 33. Ploidy Estimation in Potato/Hemant Kardile and Rahul. 34. Micropropagation in Potato/Tanuja Buckseth, Sumita Sharma, R.K. Singh and J.K. Tiwari. 35. Soil and Plant Sample Test/Sushil Kumar and Vineeta Sharma. 36. DNA Fingerprinting and Gene Expression Analysis in Potato/C.M. Bist, Rahul, Sundaresha and J.K. Tiwari. 37. Protoplast Isolation and Fusion in Potato/Jagesh K. Tiwari and Rasna Zinta. 38. Diagnostics of Potato Viruses/Ravinder Kumar, RK Tiwari, Chandan Maharana, T. Kochhar and Rajinder Kumar. Colour Plates I-XX.  Index.

Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. The book Potato: Improvement, Production and Utilization Technologies is based on technologies developed at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla. The book delves about the recent advances in potato improvement, production, protection, and utilization of technologies for doubling the farmers' income. The book covers potato scenario, germplasm strength, varietal development applying conventional and molecular breeding methods, AICRP (potato), tissue culture, biotechnology, genomics, genome editing, diagnostics of potato pathogens and insect-pest management, integrated crop management, soil and plant sample test, impact of climate change, precision agriculture, conventional and hi-tech seed potato production including micropropagation and aeroponics, post-harvest management and potato nutrition, farm mechanization and various other topics related to potato. We hope this book will be beneficial for potato stakeholders, researchers and farming community.