Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Effect of growth regulators on sprouting of stored table stock potatoes and on waste piles for control of diseases

  • Published:
American Potato Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

Results with certain growth regulators or dormancy treatments indicate that sprouting and subsequent development of late blight on potato waste piles can be prevented if the cull potatoes are treated with dormancy treatments before or when the tubers are deposited on the cull piles.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature Cited

  1. Bonde, Reiner, and E. S. Schultz. 1943. Potato refuse piles as a factor in the dissemination of late blight. Maine Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 416.

  2. Guthrie, John D. 1939. Inhibition of the growth of buds of potato tubers with the vapor of the methyl ester of napthaleneacetic acid. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 10: 325–328.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Melhus, I. E. 1915. Hibernation ofPhytophthora infestans in the Irish potato. Jour. Agr. Res. 5: 71–102.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Mitchell, John W. 1943–1947. Plant growth regulators. U. S. Dept. of Agr. Yearbook. Pp. 256–266.

  5. Smith, Ora. 1946. Retarding sprout growth of potatoes ond root crops in storage. Down to Earth (Dow Chem. Co.) Vol. 2, No. 2: 5–8.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md.

    P. C. Marth (Physiologist) & E. S. Schultz (Principal Pathologist)

Authors
  1. P. C. Marth
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. E. S. Schultz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Report of a study made under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Marth, P.C., Schultz, E.S. Effect of growth regulators on sprouting of stored table stock potatoes and on waste piles for control of diseases. American Potato Journal 27, 23–32 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02850106

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02850106

Keywords

Search

Navigation