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Potato breeding, genetics, and cytology: Review of recent literature

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Some of the material in this report, especially that concerning articles written in foreign languages, was taken from the abstracts published by the Imperial Bureau of Plant Genetics, Cambridge, England.

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Stevenson, F.J. Potato breeding, genetics, and cytology: Review of recent literature. American Potato Journal 22, 36–52 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862612

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