Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Potato tuber -- an introduction / Jaspreet Singh and Lovedeep Kaur -- Potato origin and production / John E. Bradshaw and Gavin Ramsay -- Breeding, genetics, and cultivar development / Shelley Jansky -- Cell-wall polysaccharides of potatoes / Philip J. Harris -- Structure of potato starch / Eric Bertoft and Andreas Blennow -- Potato proteins, lipids and minerals / Sirpa K�arenlampi and Philip White -- Analysis of glycoalkaloids, phenolic compounds and anthocyanins in potatoes / Mendel Friedman and Carol Levin -- Thermal processing and quality optimization of potatoes / Maria Dolores Alvarez Torres and Wenceslao Canet Parreno -- Advanced analytical techniques to evaluate the quality of potato and potato starch / Qiang Liu [and others] -- Textural and rheological characteristics of raw and cooked potatoes / Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur, and M.A. Rao -- Potato starch and its modification / Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur, and Owen J. McCarthy -- Fried and dehydrated potato products / Franco Pedreschi -- Postharvest storage of potatoes / Reena Grittle Pinhero, Robert Coffin, and Rickey Y Yada -- Nutritional value of potatoes: digestibility, glycemic index and glycemic impact / John Monro and Suman Mishra -- Nutritional value of potatoes: vitamin, phytonutrient and mineral content / Duroy A. Navarre, Aymeric Goyer and Roshani Shakya -- Novel applications and non-food uses of potato: future perspectives in nanotechnology / Lovedeep Kaur and Jaspreet Singh -- Novel applications and non-food uses of potato: potatoes in biomedical/pharmaceutical and fermentation applications / Shrikant A. Survase and Rekha S. Singhal -- Potatoes for human life support in space -- Raymond M. Wheeler.

Addressing developments in potato chemistry, including identification, analysis and use of chemical components of potatoes in the development of new and innovative food and non-food products; the expert coverage includes a major focus on carbohydrate and non-carbohydrate composition, cell wall chemistry, analysis of glycoalkaloids, phenolics and anthocyanins, thermal processing and quality optimization, new and sophisticated methods of quality determination of potatoes and their products. Potato starch characteristics and its modification, nutritional and feeding value, and non-food uses of potatoes are also explored. Chapters focused on developments in post harvest storage, breeding and germplasm resources and production of potatoes with reference to industrial usage are included.

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B-35414/EDIMEH/12/05/2017