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The comparative efficiency of tuber indexing and tuber unit planting in the elimination of virus diseases from seed potatoes

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings, S. Dak.

    L. T. Richardson

  2. Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    H. N. Racicot (Plant Pathologist)

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Contribution No. 1118 from the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Formerly Associate Plant Pathologist, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Richardson, L.T., Racicot, H.N. The comparative efficiency of tuber indexing and tuber unit planting in the elimination of virus diseases from seed potatoes. American Potato Journal 28, 765–775 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02851141

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