Abstract
The potato is one of the world’s most economically important crop plants. Subjecting the plant to a period of thermotherapy followed by meristem culture now routinely allows the production of pathogen-tested (virus-free) stock cultures, and in vitro cultures free from bacteria, fungi, and viruses are used for micro-propagation of large quantities of disease-free plants (Quak 1977; Bajaj 1981; Lizarraga et al. 1986; Estrella 1987). These disease-free plants form the nuclear stock of material in a potato seed tuber program. Disease-free plants are high-yielding and produce tubers of better marketable quality and resulting higher price.
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Dodds, J.H., Silva-Rodriguez, D., Tovar, P. (1992). Micropropagation of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07770-2_6
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