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A monograph for calculating specific gravity of potato tubers

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Contribution No. 1166 from the Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Kentville, Nova Scotia.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02854873.

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Hope, G.W. A monograph for calculating specific gravity of potato tubers. American Potato Journal 41, 221–222 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855088

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