EFFECT OF BIO-ACTIVATORS ON THE TUBER YIELD AND TUBER SIZE OF POTATOES

Authors

  • Gulsum OZTURK, Zihin YILDIRIM Author

Keywords:

Bio-activator, number of tubers, potato, tuber size, tuber yield

Abstract

Two bio-activators, the Crop-set and the ISR-2000 were sprayed on the potato plants before flowering in order to increase tuber set and tuber size in a field trial conducted at Bornova, Izmir-Turkey in 2009 and 2010. The Crop-set increased the number of tubers per plants, plot yield, tuber width over the control in 2009 and 2010. The ISR-2000 had the highest single tuber weight such as 36.7 g in 2009 and 35.9 g in 2010. It could be concluded that bio-activators could be used in the minituber propagation stage in order to increase tuber number and tuber size in a seed potato program.

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Published

2013-02-19

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): VOLUME 18 NO:1 , 2013

Section

Articles