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Biotechnology of production of virus‐free seed potatoes in Bukovina (Ukraine) 1
Author(s) -
KHOMYAK V. V.,
MEL'NIK P. A.,
KHOMYAK M. V.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1998.tb00775.x
Subject(s) - biology , cultivar , horticulture , quarantine , potato cyst nematode , agronomy , ecology , nematode
In the past, the Ukrainian Plant Quarantine Research Institute used to produce true‐to‐type virus‐free potato cultivars by in vitro propagation for its research on pathotypes of Synchytrium endobioticum and Globodera spp. Use of virus‐free seed potatoes has considerably declined in the 1990s as potato production has passed almost entirely into private hands. The Institute now has a role to fill in supplying virus‐free seed potatoes to local growers and has greatly increased its production in consequence. The techniques used for seed‐potato production in Bukovina are described.