Mini potato tuber

Description

• Potato tubers obtained from the production and propagation of seedlings in greenhouses and laboratories are called mini-potato tubers, which are made available to farmers for cultivation.
• The importance of mini potato tubers
• Since potatoes are susceptible to a variety of plant and viral pests and diseases, and biological threats and plant pathogens damage a large part of agriculture, producing healthy potato tubers is important.
• Seed tubers are damaged by viral and fungal diseases, so the propagation of healthy, disease-free seedlings for seed production is on the agenda of every country’s national agricultural programs.
• Infected potato seeds cause crop destruction and inefficiency, which is why farmers are looking for healthy, disease-free potato seeds.
• The production of primary potato seed kernels, or mini-tubers, produced in the laboratory are disease-free.