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Nature of Tetraploidy in Cultivated European Potatoes

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IT must be unusual to find that the essential details of the genetic behaviour of an economic crop of such standing as the potato can still offer fertile grounds for controversy. Yet such is indeed the case.

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CADMAN, C. Nature of Tetraploidy in Cultivated European Potatoes. Nature 152, 103–104 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152103b0

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