Advances in understanding potato plant physiology and growth

Advances in understanding potato plant physiology and growthPotato physiology determines how genetically encoded developmental attributes interact with local environmental conditions, as modified through agricultural practice, to produce the final crop. This chapter highlights how physiological responses of potato to management choices made by growers and environmental conditions during growth and post harvest storage determine yield, quality and sustainability. The development of the potato plant is described

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This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant workers in this context

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Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region

and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction

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