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Supported by National Science Foundation Research Grants G-23677 and GB-4233 (to Hugh H. Iltis), the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Inter-Regional Potato Introduction Project, IR-1.

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Ugent, D. The potato in Mexico: Geography and primitive culture. Econ Bot 22, 109–123 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860554

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