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The effect of variation in the storage temperature of seed potatoes on sprout growth and subsequent yield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. C. E. Wurr
D. C. E. Wurr
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV 35 9EF
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Summary

Experiments, conducted over 3 years, investigated the effect of all combinations of two storage periods at low temperature (0 or 2 °C) and two storage periods at 10 °C on the sprout growth, numbers of stems per tuber, foliage development and subsequent tuber yield of the two maincrop varieties Maris Piper and Désirée.

Although the number of day-degrees accumulated during sprouting was the same for all treatment combinations, there were large effects of treatments on the number of sproutlets per tuber and the total sprout length per tuber. However, there was no effect on the number of stems per tuber, foliage development or saleable ware yield inany year.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 93 , Issue 3 , December 1979 , pp. 619 - 622
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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