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Effect of Seed Tuber Piece Size and The Number of Eyes on Growth and Yield of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) .

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This research was done to evaluate the growth and yield of potato plants raised from seed tuber pieces (STP) containing one, two, three and four eyes, for ascertaining whether seed tuber pieces containing two eyes will sustain potato growth and yield indifferently from those of larger seed tuber pieces containing more eyes. Results indicated that number of stolons and leaves per plant, leaf area, plant fresh and dry weight, relative growth rate, net assimilation rate, crop growth rate, chlorophyll a, b as well as total chlorophylls, Number of tubers and total tuber yield per plant were decreased with decreasing number of eyes in the STP. However, final emergence percentage and total carotenoids content were not significantly affected. Nevertheless, number of tubers and total tuber yield per plant did not differ significantly neither between whole seed tubers and half seed tubers containing four eyes nor half STP containing three eyes and quarter STP containing two eyes. However, all these parameters were significantly lower in response to single-eye STP compared with those containing two eyes or more. From the economic point of view, cultivation of quarter STP containing two eyes instead of half STP containing four eyes represents 50 % conservation in the seed tubers used for only 13.5 % loss in tubers yield. So, it could be concluded that the gain in net income became substantiated by cultivation of quarter STP containing at least two eyes instead of larger seed tuber pieces, even that represents half of the seed tuber.

DOI

10.21608/jpp.2021.187444

Keywords

Potato, Solanum tuberosum L, Seed tuber piece, size, number of eyes, Growth, yield

Authors

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Heba

Last Name

Ibrahim

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M.

Affiliation

Dept. of Agric. Bot., Fac. of Agriculture, Mansoura Univ., 35516 El-Mansoura, Egypt.

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hebaho@mans.edu.eg

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12

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7

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26987

Issue Date

2021-07-01

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2021-06-04

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2021-07-01

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757

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763

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2090-3669

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2090-374X

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887

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Journal of Plant Production

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https://jpp.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Seed Tuber Piece Size and The Number of Eyes on Growth and Yield of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) .

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22 Jan 2023