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rays impairs wound-healing processes. Certain pesticide<br />
chemicals on the cut tuber surface, such as some seed treatments,<br />
may impair the effectiveness <strong>of</strong> wound healing,<br />
certain<br />
whereas<br />
phenolic compounds enhance the wound-healing<br />
process and wound periderm formation. Under favorable environmental<br />
conditions, suberin is demonstrable within 24 hr<br />
S"and periderm within two to five days. Infection by some<br />
pathogens<br />
wound<br />
is greatly reduced by<br />
and<br />
the<br />
periderm<br />
rapid formation<br />
under<br />
<strong>of</strong>suberin<br />
wounds.<br />
-soils<br />
(Fig. 4) are formed under the stomata in the epidermis<br />
<strong>of</strong> stems as well as <strong>of</strong> tubers. A loose mass <strong>of</strong> thin-walled,<br />
relatively small, rounded cells initially forms under the periderm<br />
and eventually breaks through. Thus, the lenticel consists <strong>of</strong> a<br />
in the tuber surface underlaid<br />
walled<br />
with loosely<br />
cells.<br />
arranged,<br />
Lenticels<br />
thin<br />
(nu<strong>mb</strong>ering l-/cm- <strong>of</strong> surface) permit<br />
exchange through the<br />
are<br />
relatively<br />
unfavorably<br />
impervious<br />
wet,<br />
periderm.<br />
lenticels<br />
When<br />
tubers become<br />
on<br />
enlarged<br />
underground<br />
(hypertrophied<br />
stems and<br />
or proliferated) and<br />
..." .. extrude beyond the surface as white tufts<br />
in<br />
approximately<br />
diameter.<br />
0.5 mm<br />
,- 'Lenticels provide infection sites for several pathogens,<br />
including those inciting bacterial s<strong>of</strong>t rot and late blight.<br />
, -<br />
"-'''-' ""DEAN,<br />
Roots<br />
Plants from true seed produce a slender tap root that later<br />
fibrous. Plants grown from seed tubers have a fibrous<br />
system <strong>of</strong> lateral roots arising usually in groups <strong>of</strong> three at the<br />
nodes <strong>of</strong> the underground stem. Lateral roots originate in the<br />
pericycle regions <strong>of</strong> roots and in meristems <strong>of</strong> the subterranean<br />
stems close to the nodal piate. Cell divisinn in the pericycle gives<br />
rise to the root primordium, which pushes its way mechanically<br />
and possibly by enzymatic activity through the cortex. Sites <strong>of</strong><br />
root emergence are essentially open wounds and provide<br />
infection courts for pathogens.<br />
Selected References<br />
ADAMS, M.J. 1975. <strong>Potato</strong> tuber lenticels: Susceptibility to infection<br />
by Erwinia carolooravar. airosepticaand Phvtophthorainfestans.<br />
Ann. AppI. Biol. 79:275-282.<br />
ARTSCHWAGER, E.1924. Studies on the potato tuber. J. Agric. Res.<br />
27:809-835.<br />
ARTSCHWAGER, E. 1927. Wound periderm formation in the potato<br />
as affected by temperature and humidity. J. Agric. Res.<br />
35:995-1000.<br />
BURTON, W. G. 1966. The <strong>Potato</strong>, 2nd ed. ff. Veenman and Zonen.<br />
Wageningen, B. B., P. Holland. E. KOLATITUKUDY, 382 pp.<br />
Chemical composition<br />
and R. W. DAVIS.<br />
and ultrastructure<br />
1977.<br />
<strong>of</strong> suberin from hollow<br />
heart tissue <strong>of</strong> potato tubers (Solanumn tuberosum). Plant Physiol.<br />
59:1008-<strong>101</strong>0.<br />
.DODDS, K. S. 1962. Classification <strong>of</strong> cultivated potatoes. Pages 517<br />
539 in: D. S. Correlled. The <strong>Potato</strong> and Its Wild Relatives. Section'<br />
Tuberarium <strong>of</strong> the Genus Solanum. Texas Res. Foundation,<br />
Renner, TX. 606 pp.<br />
HARRIS, P. M., ed. 1978. The <strong>Potato</strong> Crop: The Scientific Basis for<br />
Improvement. Chapman and Hall, London. 730 pp.<br />
HAYWARD, H. E. 1938. Solanum tuherosum. Pages 514-549 in: The<br />
Structure <strong>of</strong> Economic Plants. The Macmillan Co., New York.<br />
. .~i674 pp.<br />
HOWARD, H. W. 1970. Genetics <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Potato</strong>, Solanun tuberosum.<br />
Logos Press, Ltd., London. 126 pp.<br />
M1ZICKO, J., C. H. LIVINGSTON, and G. JOHNSON. 1974. The<br />
effects <strong>of</strong> dihydroquercetin on the cut surface <strong>of</strong> seed potatoes. Am.<br />
<strong>Potato</strong> J. 51:216-222.<br />
:i OCHOA. C. NI. 1962. los So,,um 'luheriteros Svlvestres del Peru<br />
(Sec. Tuterarium.Sub-scc. tly-prtasulrrn).Talleres (Grificos1P.<br />
L.Villanuesa S.A., Linua Peru. 297 pp.<br />
REEVE,<br />
commercial<br />
R. M. 1974.<br />
peeling<br />
Relevance<br />
losses.<br />
<strong>of</strong> immature<br />
Am. Po:ato<br />
tuber<br />
J.<br />
periderm<br />
51:254-262.<br />
to high<br />
SALAMAN, R.N. 1949. The Historyand Social Influence <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Potato</strong>.<br />
Ca<strong>mb</strong>ridge University Press. London.<br />
Fig.<br />
685<br />
3. A,<br />
pp.<br />
Epidermis <strong>of</strong> stem. Tuber surfaces: B, immature SWAMINATHAN,<br />
periderm;<br />
M.<br />
C,slightly<br />
S., and H.W.<br />
more<br />
HOWARD.<br />
mature periderm;<br />
1953. The<br />
D,mature<br />
cytology<br />
periderm and genetics <strong>of</strong> the potato (Solanun? wtherosum)and<br />
<strong>of</strong> normal<br />
related<br />
tuber<br />
species.<br />
surface; E, well-developed wound healing pertderm<br />
on acut<br />
Bibliogr.<br />
surface.<br />
Genet.<br />
Bar<br />
16:1-192.<br />
represents 50 jum in all photographs. THOMPSON, N. R. 1978. <strong>Potato</strong>es. Pages 485-501 in: M. Milner, N.<br />
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