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Growing potato plants by the water culture technique

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A water culture technique was developed for the study of the nutrient requirements of the potato plant. Tuber formation was avoided by pinching off the stolons as they developed and hence vegetative growth could be studied without the complication of abnormal tuber formation in the culture solution. The K deficiency symptoms obtained by this method were essentially the same as those observed for field grown plants.

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Se ha desarrollado la técnica de solución nutritiva para el estudio del requerimiento nutritivo de las plantas de papas. La formación de tubérculos se ha evitado eliminando los estolones en desarrollo, y por lo tanto el crecimiento vegetativo puede ser estudiado sin la complicación de la formación anormal de tubérculos en la solución nutritiva. Los síntomas en la deficiencia de potasio obtenida por este método eran esencialmente los mismos como aquellos observados en plantas crecidas en el campo.

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  1. Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California

    Albert Ulrich

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  1. Kwok H. Fong
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This work was supported by the American Potash Institute.

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Fong, K.H., Ulrich, A. Growing potato plants by the water culture technique. American Potato Journal 46, 269–272 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02877141

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