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Insect resistance in traditional and heirloom sweetpotato varieties.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Jun 2013
Jackson D Michael, Harrison Howard F
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-nine sweetpotato cultivars, including 16 heirlooms, 11 near-heirlooms (developed in the 1960s and 1970s), 19 cultivars from the 1980s, and 13 modern varieties (since 1990), were evaluated for resistance to soil insects in field experiments during 2010-2011 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory (USDA-ARS, USVL), Charleston, SC. These experiments...
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