Out of 720 field-grown potato first year seedlings plants with best tuber apearance and large and medium size tubers with best shape were respectively selected. The tuber progeny of each group was evaluated in field experiments. It was demonstrated that the selection of individual tubers was very ef
Selection of individual tubers in potato breeding
✍ Scribed by K. M. Świeżyński
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 647 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-5752
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