Variation in the duration of tuber dormancy within a seed potato lot |
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Authors: | M. K. Van Ittersum |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Field Crops and Grassland Science, Wageningen Agricultural University, Haarweg 333, 6709 RZ Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Summary The variation in duration of dormancy within a seed tuber lot was studied over three years by harvesting individual plants of cvs Diamant and Désirée from field plots and by storing the tubers at 18°C. The variation in dormancy within a tuber lot was large (especially for cv. Diamant) and was mainly caused by variation within plants. For cv. Diamant there was a close negative relation between dormancy and the cube root of tuber weight, whereas for cv. Désirée a relation with tuber weight was almost absent. The duration of dormancy of a seed lot comprising tubers with a narrow range in weight can be well described by two parameters. It is proposed to maintain the moment of 80% sprouting as the criterion for the end of dormancy of a tuber lot and to characterize the spread in dormancy duration by the time lapse between 10% and 90% sprouting. |
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Keywords: | cultivar Solanum tuberosum L. tuber weight |
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