WHAT DO POTATOES INHERIT?
' -AN EXPERT'S ANSWEB. Dr. East, of tho Connecticut Experiynental Station, asked the question, '"What do potatoes inherit?" has given .:sbe following answer:—
• "1. Variations' in resistance to drouth .•are not inherited. ; They are due to .variations in different individuals in the '.time of (setting tubers. 11. tht, lubors , are very small at the time of the drouth >.the . plants will survive; if the ' tubers aire more than half mature at. that time, the 'yitality of the plant • will - have' been used to such an extent in their productioni'that tho. plant is likely to . die prematurely, Tubers from such plants have • less vigour than those from plants thai have • matured normally.
"2. Inherited variations sometimes take place .in tuber reproduction; nut they are. rareand are simply losses. of unimportant characters. .No growers should expect,' therefore to obtain varieties by this means that will possess a greater commercial value than is possessed, by. the parent variety... ■ _-. . "3. The numerous variations iii yield, size, etc., ■ that are : always present in potato varieties, are due to circumstances of environment, and are not inherited. Continued selection' of large tubers, therefore, will not-increase the average size of the variety. On the other hand, il tubers which are diseased or immature are planted, tho resulting plants have less vigour and-the yield, is thereby decreased."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 880, 28 July 1910, Page 8
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221WHAT DO POTATOES INHERIT? Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 880, 28 July 1910, Page 8
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