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The Maintenance of Healthy Stocks of Potatoes in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. Bbyan
H. Bbyan
Affiliation:
(National Institute of Agricultural Botany, The Potato Testing Station, Ormskirk, Lancashire.)
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1. An attempt to maintain the health of a stock of Scotch seed Majestic in England is described.

A small stock of seed obtained direct from Scotland was split up into three equal portions A, B, C, which were grown isolated from each other and all other potatoes for three years (1927–9).

A. Remained unrogued.

B. Had all plants showing virus disease symptoms rogued out and the requisite seed saved from the remaining plants when mature.

C. Had a similar quantity of seed saved from ostensibly healthy plants when immature.

2. In a final chequer board yield trial fresh Scotch “stock” seed, which can be assumed to be above the average of ordinary Scottish seed, beat stocks A, B and C significantly. There was no significant difference in the yields from the stocks obtained by the two methods B and C and both stocks beat the mature unrogued stock A significantly.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1932 , pp. 358 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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References

1 Dr R. N. Salaman, communicated verbally.

2 Murphy, P. A. and McKay, R. “Investigations on the Leaf Roll and Mosaic Diseases of the Potato,” J. Department of Lands and Agriculture, Irish Free State, 26, No. 4, 303. “The conclusion arrived at may be stated shortly as follows: That immature seed possesses of itself no inherent advantage (as has often been claimed), and is in fact distinctly inferior to mature seed except where infection with a serious virus disease is prevalent.”Google Scholar