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Selecting a Peruvian sweetpotato core collection on the basis of morphological, eco-geographical, and disease and pest reaction data
1999-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] ranks among the seven most important food crops of the world. The International Potato Center (CIP) holds one of the largest sweetpotato (2n = 6x = 90) gene-banks with more than 5000 cultivated accessions from America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. This collection is clonally maintained because it comprises farmer-selected cultivars that have been asexually propagated for ma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f9a8c477-11b1-5823-a412-2138c62076a5
- DOI
- 10.1007/s001220051142
