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Tests for resistance toPhytophthora infestans were done twice in each of 2 years on field- and glasshouse-grown tubers of ten cultivars. The cultivar rankings, were almost identical for the means of the four glasshouse tests and the means of the four field tests. However, for the field tests but not for the glasshouse tests there were cultivar x harvest date and cultivar x year interactions. It is concluded that resistance can be assessed on glasshouse-grown tubers and that such assessments should prove more consistent over years than those done on field-grown tubers.
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R.L. Wastie died 16.1.96
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Stewart, H.E., Wastie, R.L. & Bradshaw, J.E. Susceptibility toPhytophthora infestans of field-and glass-house-grown potato tubers. Potato Res 39, 283–288 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02360920
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