An Investigation of the Starch of the Fruit of the Potato, Solanum tuberosum

✍ Scribed by C. T. Greenwood; S. Mackenzie

• Book ID: 104598503
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 623 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-9056
• DOI: 10.1002/star.19630150706

✦ Synopsis

2, I t may be noted that although nearly all varieties of potato produce flowers, pollen-sterilitywhich is not yet completely understood -restricts the number which actually fruit. However, fruit-bearing potatoes are not popular con]mercially: thc yield of tubers may be adversely affected and the berries very readily seed themselves in the ground.