书目名称 | The Potato Crop | 副标题 | Its Agricultural, Nu | 编辑 | Hugo Campos,Oscar Ortiz | 视频video | | 概述 | Gathers a unique blend of contributions by internationally respected potato experts, providing both global and local perspectives and experience.Delivers a fresh and cutting-edge perspective, updating | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. .This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2020 | 关键词 | Open Access; biofortified crops; crop sciences; climate change and potato; nutrition security; Solanum tu | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28683-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-28685-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-28683-5 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 |
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