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The effect of 2,4-D and maleic hydrazide on sprouting, yields and color in red McClure potatoes

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  1. Chemistry Section, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colo.

    Jess L. Fults (Botanist, Botany and Plant Pathology Section) & Merle G. Payne (Associate Chemist)

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Published with the approval of the Director, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colo., as Scientific Series Paper No. 461. Support by the Herman Frasch Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

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Fults, J.L., Payne, M.G. The effect of 2,4-D and maleic hydrazide on sprouting, yields and color in red McClure potatoes. American Potato Journal 32, 451–459 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868845

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