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Effects of site of seed production on seed yields and regrowth of progeny tubers in potatoes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

P. J. O'Brien  and
E. J. Allen
P. J. O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture (Crop Husbandry), University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed
E. J. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture (Crop Husbandry), University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed
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Summary

Nine experiments are reported in which effects of site of seed production on dormancy, sprout and field growth of progeny tubers were recorded. The experiments used early varieties, Home Guard (four experiments), Red Craigs Royal (three experiments) and Arran Comet (two experiments) and in each, seed crops were grown with similar husbandry at sites differing in altitude and location in western England and Wales. There was no consistent effect of site of seed production on the timing of the end of dormancy, and the maximum effect in any year was 11 ± 1·2 (S.E.) days. The small effects of site on dormancy influenced initial sprout lengths, and this effect usually persisted up to planting in Home Guard and Red Craigs Royal, although the effects were small in magnitude. There was no effect of site of seed production on sprout lengths at planting or on field growth and yields in Arran Comet. In the other two varieties there was no effect of site of seed production on yield at early harvests, but at later harvests seed from cooler upland sites sometimes significantly outyielded lowland seed. There was, therefore, no evidence to support the view that locally produced seed was advantageous for early potato production. The results, together with those of the concurrent series with maincrop varieties reported by Wurr (1979), show that on half the occasions on which yields were measured covering the whole of the harvesting period, site of seed production had no effect on yields. In these experiments with early varieties effects of site occurred only at harvests later than the commercial harvesting of such old seed. It is therefore suggested that site of seed production is a much less important determinant of tuber yield than hitherto suggested, and of little practical significance.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , August 1986 , pp. 83 - 101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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