Planting materials for warm tropic potato production: Mother-plant management for the production of rooted cuttings

Tropical Agriculture

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 292-300

  Benz, J S ^a,c   Midmore, D J ^a,d   Keller, E R ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Potato; Propagation; Rooted cuttings; Warm tropics

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; MOTHER PLANTS; PLANTING MATERIAL; POTATO; POTATO PRODUCTION; ROOTED CUTTING; ROOTED CUTTINGS; TROPICS; YIELD;

SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0030318315     PISSN: 00413216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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