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The effect of certain sprout‐depressant treatments on sugar accumulation in stored potatoes
Author(s) -
Gooding E. G. B.,
Hubbard A. W.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740070902
Subject(s) - hydrazide , sugar , sucrose , chemistry , reducing sugar , depressant , horticulture , food science , botany , biology , organic chemistry , pharmacology
King Edward potatoes were treated with maleic hydrazide as a pre‐harvest foliar spray or with a preparation containing 3% of tetrachloronitrobenzene. In neither case was there any effect on the accumulation of reducing sugars when the potatoes were stored under cool conditions. A second experiment, in which two different maleic hydrazide treatments were given, also showed no effect on reducing sugar or sucrose behaviour during subsequent cool storage of the tubers.