b'INDUSTRY NEWS quality issues associated with potatoes are internal defects, greening, specific gravity and sugar content.The release said the college had previously acquired the technology that will be used in the project through a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant in 2021. The project will identify the most significant wavelengths required to detect the quality parameters associated with potatoes, the release said. It\'ll also test the NIR hyperspectral imaging system at speeds simulating commercial scanning speed and will eventually design a prototype for commercial application of the system based on extensive testing and analysis.Singh is collaborating with University of Lethbridge Research Scientist Michele Konschuh on the project, with funding contributions also coming from Lamb Weston, Old Dutch Foods and the Edmonton Potato Growers, the release said. Colorado Potato Beetles Break Down, Regrow Muscle to Survive Winter when they first measured the metabolicwere back, even though the beetles hadnt New research from Western University hasrate of the mitochondria in the lab, theyflexed a muscle.discovered hibernating Colorado potatofound nothing. "This ability to simply regrow an beetles (CPBs) break down muscles to"We thought maybe the instrumententire muscles worth of mitochondria survive winters and then regrow them onwasnt working, or my sampling wasis completely novel and explains how demand in the spring, a news release said.damaging the mitochondria, butbeetles are able to save energy all winter, This allows them to preserve energy overeventually, I used an electron microscopeyet be ready fly and mate immediately in the winter. to look at the muscle cells and foundthe spring," Lebenzon said.The team of physiologists found CPBsthat almost all of the mitochondria wereThe team doesn\'t yet know whether break down mitochondria in their owngone," former Western University graduateall hibernating insects use this strategy flight muscle in preparation for the harshstudent Jackie Lebenzon, said in theto save energy, but the discovery has winter climate. They are then able torelease. immediate implications for understanding spontaneously regrow their mitochondriaThe release noted when mitochondriahow mitochondria are regulated in insects on demand and prepare their muscles fordisappear in disease, its usually and how researchers might be able to flight in the spring. because of an irreversible processmanipulate that regulation in the context The team had planned to completecalled mitophagy. Lebenzon and Brentof some muscular disease, the release a simple experiment showing how lowSinclair, a professor at Western Science,said.metabolic rates in overwintering CPBsshowed while mitophagy did cause theThe study was published in the high-were associated with a change in the waymitochondria to go missing, they foundimpact journal PNAS. the mitochondria function. However,at the end of winter, all the mitochondria Cover your crops with the Right Recipe for Success RAMPART FUNGICIDEFormulation that fits your farm.58SPUDSMART.COM Fall 2022WWW.UAP.CA'