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.' Contents: Preface v 1. Potato: An Overview of National and International Perspective 1 N.K. Pandey, Dalamu and Jagesh Kumar Tiwari 2. Role of AICRP (Potato) and True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology in Potato 9 Vinod Kumar, Dalamu and S. Sood 3. Molecular Breeding for Biotic Stresses Resistance in Potato 19 Vinay Bhardwaj 4. Breeding for Processing Potato and Quality Parameters 27 V.K. Gupta 5. Nutrient Management in Potato Cultivation 35 Manoj Kumar 6. Water Management in Seed and Ware Potato Production 49 Name Singh viii 7. Potato Germplasm, DUS Characterization and Plant Variety and Farmers Right 57 Dalamu, Babita Chaudhary, J.K. Tiwari, Vinod Kumar and A.K. Sharma 8. Somatic Hybridization in Potato Improvement 71 Jagesh K. Tiwari, Rasna Zinta, S.K. Luthra, Vinod Kumar, Tanuja Buckseth, Dalamu and R.K. Singh 9. Diploid F1 Hybrid TPS Potato Breeding 81 Salej Sood, Vinay Bhardwaj, Hemant Kardile, Vikas Mangal and Vinod Kumar 10. Potato Nematodes Management 87 Aarti Bairwa, H.M. Priyank, E.P. Venkatasalam and Anuj Bhatnagar 11. Transgenics and Genome Editing in Potato Improvement 99 S. Sundaresha 12. Status of Adoption of Potato Technologies and Varieties in India 103 Pynbianglang Kharumnuid and N.K. Pandey 13. Impact of Climate Change on Potato: Current Scenario and Adaptation Strategies 109 V.K. Dua 14. Soil and Plant Tests for Fertilizer Recommendation 115 Jagdev Sharma and V.K. Dua 15. Post-Harvest Management of Potatoes 121 Brajesh Singh 16. Application of Proteomics and Metabolomics in Potato 129 Som Dutt, Sushil S. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Dharmendra Kumar and Brajesh Singh 17. Nutritional Value and Biochemical Analysis of Potato 141 Sushil S. Changan, Brajesh Singh, Somdutt, Arvind Jaiswal, D. Kumar and Milan K. Lal ix 18. Viral Diseases and their Management in Potato Production 151 Ravinder Kumar 19. Fungal Diseases of Potato and their Management 161 Sanjeev Sharma 20. Soil and Tuber Borne Diseases of Potato and their Management 175 Vinay Sagar 21. Seed Potato Production Scenario in India 197 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 205 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 219 Brajesh Nare and Sukhwinder Singh 24. Agro-techniques for Quality Seed Potato Production 233 Ashwani Kumar Sharma 25. Functional Genomics for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Potato 241 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 247 Sanjay Rawal and Pooja Mankar 27. Breeding Potato Varieties for Different Agro-Climatic Zones of India 257 S.K. Luthra 28. Potato Breeding for Abiotic Stresses 273 Devender Kumar x 29. Economics, Marketing and Export of Potato in India 285 Nalini Ranjan Kumar and N.K. Pandey 30. Insect Pest Management in Potato 295 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 303 Kailash C. Naga 32. Protocols for Analysis Physio-Biochemical Parameters in Potato 309 Dharmendra Kumar, Som Dutt, Sushil K. Changan, Milan K. Lal, Asha Thakur, Vandana and Brajesh Singh 33. Ploidy Estimation in Potato 325 Hemant Kardile and Rahul 34. Micropropagation in Potato 329 Tanuja Buckseth, Sumita Sharma, R.K. Singh and J.K. Tiwari 35. Soil and Plant Sample Test 337 Sushil Kumar and Vineeta Sharma 36. DNA Fingerprinting and Gene Expression Analysis in Potato 347 C.M. Bist, Rahul, Sundaresha and J.K. Tiwari 37. Protoplast Isolation and Fusion in Potato 353 Jagesh K. Tiwari and Rasna Zinta 38. Diagnostics of Potato Viruses 367 Ravinder Kumar, RK Tiwari, Chandan Maharana, T. Kochhar and Rajinder Kumar Colour Plates I-XX Suggested Readings 375 Index 389 About the Author: Dr. Jagesh Kumar Tiwari, Senior Scientist (Horticulture-Vegetable Science), ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi has over 14 years of research experience on potato at ICAR-CPRI, Shimla since 2008 to 2022. He is post-doctorate from University of Adelaide, Australia and International Potato Centre, Lima, Peru. He has bagged awards ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award, ICAR Hari Om Ashram Trust Award, NAAS Associateship Award, and IAHS-DP Ghosh Memorial Young Scientist Award etc. and published over 100 research papers/reviews. Dr. (Ms.) Tanuja Buckseth, Scientist (Senior Scale), Horticulture-Vegetable Science, ICAR-CPRI, Shimla has over eight years of research experience in seed potato production. She has contributed significantly in seed potato research for producing healthy, disease free potato seed stocks, strengthened the Hi-tech Potato seed production system (Micropropagation and aeroponic) by refining the various parameters. She has published over 40 research articles in reputed international & national journals and received awards/recognitions from several professional societies. Dr. (Ms.) Dalamu, Senior Scientist (Horticulture-Vegetable Science), ICAR-CPRI, Shimla has over 10 years of research experience in potato breeding and varietal development through conventional and marker assisted selection for various biotic stresses and nutritional enhancement, potato DUS characterisation and varietal protection. She has published more than 40 research articles, book chapters and popular articles. She is life member of Indian Potato Association, Indian Society of Vegetable Science and Horticultural Society of India. Dr. (Ms.) Aarti Bairwa, Scientist (Sr. Scale), Nematology, ICAR-CPRI, Shimla has over 9 years of research experience in potato nematodes and their different management aspects including development of potato cyst nematode resistant varieties. She has published more than 45 research papers, reviews, book chapters and technical/popular articles. She has received awards from different professional societies and is life member of Indian Potato Association. Dr. N.K. Pandey, Ex-Director (Acting), ICAR-CPRI, Shimla has over 35 years of experience on potato in Agriculture economics and Transfer of Technology. He is entrusted with the demonstrating the potato technologies and human resource development to farmers/stakeholders and staff of the Institute. He has also assessed the impact of potato technologies developed by the Institute. Dr Pandey has over 150 research publications. He has been awarded ICAR Team Research award and CPRI Merit Certificate. Dr. Manoj Kumar, Ex-Joint Director & Principal Scientist (Soil Science), ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Regional Station, Modipuram, Meerut (UP) has nearly 20 years of research experience on potato coordination & management and soil-nutrient management technologies. He has published over 200 research articles and received awards/ recognitions from several professional societies/ institutes. He is Fellow of Indian Potato Association, Shimla.