Potato Ecology And modelling of crops under conditions limiting growth

1. Models in research and education, planning and practice.- 2. Crop physiology of potato (Solanum tuberosum): Responses to photoperiod and temperature relevant to crop modelling.- 3. Modelling development and growth of the potato crop influenced by temperature and daylength: LINTUL-POTATO.- 4. Physiology of crop response to drought.- 5. Modelling water and nitrogen uptake of a potato crop growing on a ridge.- 6. Physiological effects of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature on growth and water relations of crop plants.- 7. Simulated effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentration and temperature on the productivity of potato. Interaction with cultivar differences for earliness.- 8. Nitrogen and the growth of potato crops.- 9. Modelling to optimize the use of both water and nitrogen by the potato crop.- 10. Simulation of nitrogen uptake from soil and partitioning in potato plants: Model description and sensitivity analysis.- 11. Crop physiological responses to infection by potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp).- 12. Modelling the interaction between potato crops and cyst nematodes.- 13. A growth model for plants attacked by nematodes.- 14. Factors involved in the development of potato late blight disease (Phytophthora infestans).- 15. Simulation models of potato late blight.- 16. Life cycle and ecology of Verticillium dahliae in potato.- 17. Modelling the dynamics of Verticillium dahlia.- 18. Use of a crop-growth model coupled to an epidemic model to forecast yield and virus infection in seed potatoes.- 19. Prescriptive crop and pest management software for farming systems involving potatoes.- 20. An advisory system for the management of potato cyst nematodes (Globodera spp).- 21. Handling qualitative and uncertain information.- 22. The useof models in potato breeding.- 23. Agro-ecological zonation for potato production.- 24. Future focus of physiology and modelling of potatoes.