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EFFECT OF PRE-HARVEST FOLIAR SPRAY OF MALEIC HYDRAZIDE ON GROWTH. YIELD AND QUALITY OF POTATO

Volume : 71
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 182 - 188
Published: September 26, 2023
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Abstract


Single spray of matela hydrazide (MH) mede on n potato crop at 2-0 weeks before harvest at 4 concentrations (0-0 4%) had no marked influence on morphological charac- ters, MH spray given 6 weeks before harvest at 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 per cent reduced the total tuber yield by 5 51, 10.36 and 13.93 per cent respectively mainly by decreasing the size of tubors. The MH had no significant influence on per cent dry matter of haulm, roots and number of tubers par hill, However, it redused the starch and total sugar content of tubers.

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182 - 188
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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