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Effect of maturity on nitrogen fractions in potato

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Different parts of plants of three potato cultivars were analysed 31, 47, 63, 79, 95 and 111 days after plant emergence to determine the variations in nitrogen fractions between cultivars and during growth to maturity. In all cultivars protein nitrogen in different parts decreased upto the 79th day and thereafter it remained constant. The organic nitrogen fraction of non-protein nitrogen followed a similar pattern except that it increased in the tuber during the last stages of maturity.

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  1. Department of Foods and nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, 125004, Hissar (Haryana), India

    A. C. Kapoor

  2. Department of Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, 55008, St. Paul, MN, USA

    P. H. Li

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Kapoor, A.C., Li, P.H. Effect of maturity on nitrogen fractions in potato. Potato Res 26, 277–279 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02357123

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