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The influence of some seed potato production techniques on basic tuber characteristics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. C. E. Wurr  and
A. Barnes
D. C. E. Wurr
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick
A. Barnes
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick
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Summary

The effects of the planting density of the seed potato crop, the date on which it was defoliated and the time at which it was lifted, on the weight, shape and number of eyes on progeny tubers in a given size grade, were small and were unlikely to be of practical importance.

Size grade was both closely and linearly related to the number of eyes on a tuber and seemed to be a perfectly adequate practical method of grading seed tubers according to their number of eyes.

Type
Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , October 1977 , pp. 285 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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