Using a Scanner-based Minirhizotron System to Characterize Sweetpotato Adventitious Root Development During the Initial Storage Root Bulking Stage

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 513-517

  Villordon, Arthur ^a   Labonte, Don ^b   Solis, Julio ^b  

^a LA State Univ Agricultural Center   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous cambium; Ipomoea batatas; Lateral roots; Storage root initiation

Indexed keywords

IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 79952953200     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.3.513     Document Type: Article

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