Potato Research

The European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) publishes a journal, Potato Research, which includes original scientific contributions on both fundamental and applied research on potatoes, review articles and topics of general interest. It also contains Association news and reports on section meetings (including abstracts of papers presented).
A volume of the Journal (usually approximately 450 pages), consists of four issues, published in the same year. Submission of manuscripts is exclusively online via a web-based electronic submission and tracking system available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/potr

EAPR Members have online access to Potato Research (use the EAPR member login page)
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Contents of ‘Potato Research’ can be found at Springerlink
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https://link.springer.com/journal/11540

Latest Issues

Exploring Potato Sector Dynamics Across the States in India
21st July, 2025
Potato is a key vegetable that dominates many corners of India as a staple crop and attracts the couch consumers through different value-added products. However, there are great anomalies, and differences are there across the country in potato production to marketing. So, the present study is an attempt to learn and relearn the journey of potatoes from four completely different states, viz., Gujarat, Bihar, Sikkim and Odisha of the country through many research papers, reports and supportive documents. In the end, it is highlighted that infrastructural strengthening, value creation, value chain analysis and effective linkages are necessary to support this sector from any kind of volatility and fluctuations.
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Effect of Chlorogenic Acid and Rutin on Structural and Functional Properties of Potato Starch
18th July, 2025
This research investigates the effects of two phenolic compounds—chlorogenic acid and rutin—on the crystalline properties, structural interactions, solubility, swelling power, total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity, and in vitro digestibility. Complexes were prepared by adding these compounds at concentrations of 5%, 10%, and a combined 5% mixture (CARU). Changes in crystalline structure were analyzed using X-ray diffraction, and bonding interactions were examined using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The addition of phenolic compounds, mainly rutin, significantly altered the crystallinity of starch and revealed new interaction bands in the FT-IR spectra. Increasing phenolic content resulted in significant (p ≤ 0.05) reductions in solubility and swelling power. The highest total phenolic content (TPC), ranging from 13.1 to 239.2% GAE/100 g, as well as the highest antioxidant activity, with a Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) value of 1066.6 ± 1.3 mg TE/100 g, were found in treatments containing 5% CARU. In vitro digestibility showed that phenolic-starch complexes increased resistant starch content, rising from 77.8 to 85.3% in CARU 5%. These findings suggest that incorporating phenolic compounds into potato starch can enhance its structural, functional, and nutritional properties.
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Optimizing Marketable Tuber Production in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) with Irrigation and Biostimulants Application
18th July, 2025
A field study was conducted to evaluate the combined effects of irrigation scheduling and amino acid-based biostimulants (AAB) on the growth and yield of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) under Inceptisol conditions in the Middle Gangetic Plain, Uttar Pradesh, India, during two consecutive rabi seasons. The experiment followed a split-plot design with three irrigation regimes: I1 (three irrigations at three growth stages), I2 (four irrigations at four stages), and I3 (five irrigations at five stages), with 5 cm of water applied using a ridge-furrow system. Sub-plot treatments included four foliar biostimulant applications: control (A0), animal-based (A1), plant-based (A2), and a mixed amino acid formulation (A3), applied at key physiological stages. All biostimulants were applied in liquid form using a sprayer, diluted at a concentration of 250 mL per 100 L of water per hectare. Standard NPK fertilizer doses were applied, and soil properties were monitored before and after cultivation. Results indicated that both irrigation scheduling and AAB treatments significantly affected plant height, leaf area index (LAI), chlorophyll content, and marketable tuber yield across both years. Among the irrigation treatments, I2 resulted in the most favorable growth and yield parameters. The plant-based biostimulants (A2) consistently outperformed other AAB sources, significantly enhancing vegetative growth and tuber production. The I2A2 treatment combination yielded the highest values for plant height at 90 DAP (33.5 cm and 32.9 cm), LAI at 60 DAP (4.96 and 3.77), chlorophyll content at 30 DAP (43.77 and 44.62), and tuber yield per plant (255.00 g and 241.33 g) in the first and second field experiment, respectively. Significant interaction effects between irrigation levels and biostimulants types were observed for all measured parameters. These findings suggest that the strategic integration of a four-stage irrigation schedule with plant-derived AAB substantially improves marketable tuber yield by promoting vegetative growth and physiological performance in potato crops cultivated under Gangetic alluvial conditions.
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Enhancing Potato Leaf Disease Detection Using Super-Resolution and Multi-path Multi-attention Transformers
17th July, 2025
Plant diseases significantly affect agricultural yields, leading to economic loss. The timely and accurate detection of potato leaf diseases is important to facilitate early intervention. Existing deep learning models struggle to detect minor variations in potato diseases due to uneven lighting condition, occlusions, complex background noise, and blur presence in the test images. To handle these problems, a multi-path, multi-attention, and lightweight transformer-based method incorporating shifted window multi-head self-attention (SW-MSA) with multi-scale channel attention and pixel attention is proposed in this paper. Additionally, an image super-resolution (ISR) module is also developed and incorporated with SW-MSA to further improve the disease detection accuracy by enhancing the quality of the original test images. Exhaustive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method performs superior compared to existing methods with an accuracy of 99.3% with lesser inference time. Confusion matrix and classification report-based evaluations affirm its better capability in identifying various types of diseases i.e., early blight and late blight with healthy classes. The proposed method provides a stable and accurate solution to real-time disease detection, facilitating early intervention and minimizing agricultural losses.
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Is Field-sowing of Hybrid True Potato Seeds Feasible for Seed or Ware Potato Production under Dutch Conditions? An Analysis Based on a Review and Twenty Experiments
17th July, 2025
The introduction of hybrid true potato seeds (hybrid TPS) offers multiple new ways for seed or ware tuber production in potato, including field-sowing. As opposed to the use of nursery raised seedlings for field-transplanting, which is extensively studied and reported as a practical option for seed or ware production, field-sowing of hybrid TPS is a promising opportunity of which the feasibility for use has not been exhaustively investigated. Field-sowing may be more cost effective as it does not require nursery seedling production. This paper assesses the possibilities of using a field-sown hybrid TPS cultivation system for seed and ware production. First, the critical phases of the system to come to yield formation are defined, namely seed germination, seedling emergence, and plantlet establishment, based on a review. Second, observations and results collected in 20 studies over the course of 4 years indicate that various factors including seed quality and treatment, physical soil properties, soil moisture, weather, and the application and timing of crop management practices all significantly influenced the success of a field-sown crop. The uptake of field-sowing of hybrid TPS for seed or ware tuber production will benefit from improvements in plantlet establishment ratios by improved seed quality and enhanced agronomic practices and technologies. Genetic improvements are beneficial to trigger yield increase in general, and specifically enhance the crop’s early vigour. An important aspect in shaping the future for potato as a field-sown crop is the need to support growers with advice based on experimentation with field-sown TPS in addition to grower’s own experiences growing potato from hybrid TPS or other small-seeded field crops.
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Latest Issues

Exploring Potato Sector Dynamics Across the States in India

Effect of Chlorogenic Acid and Rutin on Structural and Functional Properties of Potato Starch

Optimizing Marketable Tuber Production in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) with Irrigation and Biostimulants Application

Enhancing Potato Leaf Disease Detection Using Super-Resolution and Multi-path Multi-attention Transformers

Is Field-sowing of Hybrid True Potato Seeds Feasible for Seed or Ware Potato Production under Dutch Conditions? An Analysis Based on a Review and Twenty Experiments

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