Developing cold-chipping potato varieties by silencing the vacuolar invertase gene

Crop Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 981-990

  Wu, Lei ^a,b   Bhaskar, Pudota B ^b,c   Busse, James S ^c   Zhang, Ruofang ^c   Bethke, Paul C ^b   Jiang, Jiming ^b  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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EID: 79955547505     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2010.08.0473     Document Type: Article

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