Pre-planting treatment of seed potato tuber pieces to break dormancy, control tuber piece decay and improve yield.

Shashirekha, M. N. and Narasimham, P. (1989) Pre-planting treatment of seed potato tuber pieces to break dormancy, control tuber piece decay and improve yield. Experimental Agriculture, 25 (1). 27-33; 19 ref..

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Abstract

In laboratory and field experiments at Mysore, cut pieces of potato cv. Kufri Jyoti tubers were treated with 7 antimicrobial chemicals at a variety of concn to control decay caused by Erwinia carotovora and Fusarium oxysporum. Mercuric chloride was the most effective in controlling decay, followed by streptocycline, Dithane M-45 [mancozeb], ferrous sulphate, Emisan [2-methoxyethylmercury chloride], Bavistin [carbendazim], Oxine [oxine-copper?] and TEM, a trace element mixture. Mercuric chloride was most effective at a concn of 100 mg/litre but the other fungicides gave increasing levels of control up to the highest concn tested (500 mg/litre). Tuber yields ranged from 9.7 kg/plot with mancozeb to 15.6 kg with TEM. In experiments on dormancy breaking in seed tubers stored at 4

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Potatoes-; growth-regulators; gibberellins-; ethephon-; seed-tubers; dormancy-breaking; sprouting-; fungicides-; mancozeb-; oxine-copper; carbendazim-; treatment-; ferrous-sulfate; trace-elements; bactericides-; tubers-; dormancy-; Gibberellic-acid; yields-; decay-; plant-growth-regulators
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 10 Plants > 04 Plant Physiology 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 23 Vegetables > 02 Potato
Divisions:	Fruit and Vegetable Technology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2018 06:48
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2018 06:48
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/8222

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