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How do you prevent sweet potatoes from rotting in the cellar? The latest practical tips are here
Sweet potato is one of China's main food crops, and most sweet potatoes have now been harvested. For some growers with high yields, they cannot sell them all, so after harvesting they need to be stored in cellars. However, many people find when storing sweet potatoes
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Prevention Methods for Sweet Potato Cellar Rot and Storage Management Techniques
The biggest problem during sweet potato storage is cellar rot. Once cellar rot occurs, it may at best reduce the quality of the sweet potatoes, and at worst cause all the sweet potatoes in the cellar to rot, resulting in varying degrees of loss. Sweet potato cellar rot is mostly caused by physiological diseases and infectious diseases. Physiological diseases mainly
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Potato tubers infected with Phytophthora cause cellar rot
Symptoms: Slightly sunken dark or purple lesions appear in patches on the surface of the tubers, extending less than 1cm into the tuber. White mold is generally not easy to see, but when humidity in the cellar is high, white mold grows on the diseased area, which is the pathogen's sporangiophores and sporangia. This causes cellar rot. For the pathogen, transmission routes and disease conditions, see Potato Diseases - Potato Late Blight. For control methods, see Potato Dry Rot.
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