Postharvest Biology and Technology of Fruits, Vegetables, and Flowers

410 POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES, & FLOWERS
Significant advances have been made in using potato for nonfood applications. Genetic
and molecular approaches are used to manipulate carbohydrate metabolism in tuber,
thereby changing tuber starch content and amylopectin levels (Regierer et al., 2002). Using
potato for therapeutic molecule production and edible, plant-based vaccination system
and biodegradable plastics production will offer new and exciting challenges to potato
postharvest biology (Kim et al., 2004; Neumann et al., 2005; Twyman et al., 2005).
Acknowledgments
Author thanks Dr Rob Davidson, Dr Dave Holm, Dr Fahrettin Goktepe, Andrew Houser,
Merlin Dillon, Carolyn Keller, and Bhargavi Jayanty for critical reading of the chapter and
for their useful discussions.
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