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Sprouting of seed tubers during cold storage and its influence on tuber formation, flowering and the duration of the life cycle in a diploid population of potato

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The influence of a short tuber dormancy and the subsequent sprout growth of the seed tubers during storage at 4 °C on the processes related to plant development and tuber formation was investigated in a diploid population with 238 genotypes, its crossing parents and seven tetraploid varieties. Sprout growth during storage at 4 °C was positively correlated to the duration of the dormancy period at 18–22 °C, the low temperature prolonging the dormancy period. Results show that the duration of the dormancy period and the sprouting of seed tubers during storage at low temperature did not have a determinant influence on plant development, tuber formation or the duration of the plant cycle in this large and highly diverse population of potato.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences: Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709, PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Carolina Celis-Gamboa, E. Jacobsen & R. G. F. Visser

  2. Department of Plant Sciences: Crop and Weed Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Haarweg 333, 6709, RZ, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    P. C. Struik

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Celis-Gamboa, C., Struik, P.C., Jacobsen, E. et al. Sprouting of seed tubers during cold storage and its influence on tuber formation, flowering and the duration of the life cycle in a diploid population of potato. Potato Res 46, 9–25 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736099

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