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Genetics, cytogenetics and breeding in the potato: Review of literature

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Much 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, and The Review of Applied Mycology

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Stevenson, F.J. Genetics, cytogenetics and breeding in the potato: Review of literature. American Potato Journal 17, 299–314 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881686

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