External Disorders
Deformations
Cracking
Swollen Lenticels
Chaining
Hair Sprouting
Little Tuber Disorder
Summary Table: Causes of External Disorder
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| | Disorder | Primary Cause | Occurrence | Market Effect | Deformation | heat* | bulking | quality | Growth Crack | wet/dry soil* | bulking | quality | Chaining | hot soil | mid-bulking | yield (size) | Hair Sprout | hot soil | late-bulking | quality and yield | Swollen Lenticel | wet soil | bulking-harvest | storage rots | Greening | light | bulking-storage | quality | Thumnbnail Crack | very dry soil | harvest | storage rots | Air Crack | sudden cold | harvest | storage rots | Little Tuber | seed aging | storage | yield (stand) | “Hides” | ? | ? | (quality) | * Deformations may also be caused by some herbicides. | |
