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Potatoes of the Bliss Triumph variety were segregated into classes on the basis of the intensity, color, and location of the fluorescence of the tuber when cut surfaces were exposed to ultraviolet light.
The symptoms of certain virus diseases and virus-disease complexes which subsequently appeared in the resultant plants indicated that such diseases had been identified in the tubers of the Bliss Triumph variety with reasonable accuracy on the basis of location and color as well as intensity of the fluorescence observed.
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Published as Scientific Series Paper No. 174, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colo.
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McLean, J.G., Kreutzer, W.A. The determination of virus infections in the potato tuber by the use of ultraviolet light. American Potato Journal 21, 131–136 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855384
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855384