A history of the potato / Charles Raymond Brown and Jan-Willem Henfling -- Taxonomy / Ronald G. van den Berg and N. Groendijk-Wilders -- Potato utilization and markets / Jennifer K. Bond -- Tuber development / Bjorn Kloosterman and Christian Bachem -- Plant growth and development / Carrie H. Wohleb, N. Richard Knowles, and Mark J. Pavek -- Commercial potato production and cultural management / Mark J. Pavek -- Plant-water relations and irrigation management of potato / David Levy and Warren K. Coleman -- Seed potato production / Robert D. Davidson and Kaiyun Xie -- Insect pests of potato / Timothy D. Waters and Andrew S. Jensen -- Plant parastic nematodes of potato / Juan E. Palomares-Rius, Clandio M.G. Oliveira and Vivian C. Blok -- Fungal and bacterial disease aspects in potato production / William W. Kirk and Phillip S. Wharton -- Virus disease problems facing potato industries worldwide : viruses found, climate change implications, rationalizing virus strain nomenclature and addressing the potato virus Y issue / Roger A.C. Jones -- Weed control strategies for potato (Solanum tuberosum) / Ian C. Burke and Wesley J. Everman -- Tuber physiological disorders / Loretta Mikitzel -- Postharvest storage and physiology / Paul C. Bethke -- Traditional breeding and cultivar development / Richard Novy -- Molecular breeding of potato in the postgenomic era / Richard E. Veilleux and T. Boluarte-Medina -- Nutritional characteristics of potatoes / Duroy Navarre, Aymeric Goyer, Raja Payyavula and Hanjo Hellmann -- Potato flavour / Mark A. Taylor.