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Potato quality XXIV. Objective measurement of mealiness in potatoes

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  1. Lauro Lujan (Graduate student)

    Present address: Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Cornell Univ, under Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, USA

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  1. Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Cornell Univ., USA

    Ora Smith (Professor of Vegetable Crops)

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Paper No. 521, Department of Vegetable Crops, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N. Y.

Associate Geneticist, on leave from Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario.

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Lujan, L., Smith, O. Potato quality XXIV. Objective measurement of mealiness in potatoes. American Potato Journal 41, 244–252 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855154

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