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Chilean importations were mostly virus-infected and few gave berries. Their progenies were mostly large, blight-susceptible, very infertile, late-maturing, often strongly pigmented plants with small poor-shaped tubers, and were suggestive of a highly inbred population of Andigena origin. Although some useful qualities were detected, Neo-Tuberosum is a more convenient and probably richer source of such qualities.
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Glendinning, D.R. Chilean potatoes: an appraisal. Potato Res 18, 306–307 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02361733
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