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International Potato Center
Facility•Lima, Peru•
About: International Potato Center is a facility organization based out in Lima, Peru. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Phytophthora infestans. The organization has 1036 authors who have published 1460 publications receiving 47183 citations.
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TL;DR: The study revealed that quinoa has a high soluble sugar content, which may cause a lowering of the freezing point and therefore contributing to lower the LT50, and suggested that the content of proline and soluble sugars, such as sucrose, may serve as indicators of frost tolerance in quinoa breeding material.
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TL;DR: The global distribution of potato area is described using country-level statistics and a new geo-referenced database as discussed by the authors, and two main peaks in global potato distribution by latitude.
Abstract: The global distribution of potato area is described using country-level statistics and a new geo-referenced database. There are two main peaks in global potato distribution by latitude. The major peak is between 45°N and 57°N and represents potato production zones in the temperate climates where potato is a summer crop. The other peak is between 23°N and 34°N, and mainly represents production zones in the subtropical lowlands, where potato is a winter crop. Between 1950 and 1998 potato production area increased at low latitudes and decreased at high latitudes, particularly around 53°N (this zone includes parts of Belarus, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine). The northern limit of potato production coincides with the boundaries of agriculture and the presence of human population. The peak between 23°N and 34°N coincides with the area of highest population density (per area of land and per area of arable land). About 25% of the global potato area is in the highlands (above 1000 m).
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TL;DR: Bolivia's structural adjustment policies, initiated in 1985, increased poverty among certain groups, but this did not lead to widespread migration to the agricultural frontier as mentioned in this paper, nor did adjustment greatly affect the average area planted in annual crops by small lowland farmers.
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TL;DR: The origin of Western European populations are identified with high accuracy from a single restricted area in the extreme south of Peru, located between the north shore of the Lake Titicaca and Cusco, with important consequences for the control of this pest and the development of quarantine measures.
Abstract: Native to South America, the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida is one of the principal pests of Andean potato crops and is also an important global pest following its introduction to Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and Oceania. Building on earlier work showing a clear south to north phylogeographic pattern in Peruvian populations, we have been able to identify the origin of Western European populations with high accuracy. They are all derived from a single restricted area in the extreme south of Peru, located between the north shore of the Lake Titicaca and Cusco. Only four cytochrome b haplotypes are found in Western Europe, one of them being also found in some populations of this area of southern Peru. The allelic richness at seven microsatellite loci observed in the Western European populations, although only one-third of that observed in this part of southern Peru, is comparable to the allelic richness observed in the northern region of Peru. This result could be explained by the fact that most of the genetic variability observed at the scale of a field or even of a region is already observed at the scale of a single plant within a field. Thus, even introduction via a single infected potato plant could result in the relatively high genetic variability observed in Western Europe. This finding has important consequences for the control of this pest and the development of quarantine measures.
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TL;DR: The SUBSTOR-Potato model was recently evaluated across a wide range of growing conditions, and improvements were made to better simulate atmospheric CO2 and high temperature responses as mentioned in this paper.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Jari P. T. Valkonen | 64 | 328 | 12936 |
Anthony Bebbington | 57 | 247 | 13362 |
Sven Wunder | 57 | 191 | 19645 |
Donald C. Cole | 52 | 272 | 10626 |
Robert J. Hijmans | 50 | 131 | 40315 |
Josef Glössl | 49 | 97 | 7358 |
Roger A. C. Jones | 49 | 325 | 9217 |
Rebecca Nelson | 49 | 152 | 8388 |
Paul Winters | 47 | 221 | 6916 |
Laura F. Salazar | 46 | 175 | 6692 |
M. Monica Giusti | 42 | 140 | 7156 |
Karen A. Garrett | 41 | 155 | 6182 |
Sven-Erik Jacobsen | 39 | 92 | 5869 |
David J. Midmore | 36 | 209 | 4077 |
Luis E. Rodriguez-Saona | 36 | 131 | 4719 |