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Potato breeding, genetics, and cytology: review of literature, 1940

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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.

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Stevenson, F.T. Potato breeding, genetics, and cytology: review of literature, 1940. American Potato Journal 18, 317–329 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02884969

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