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  • Evaluation of leaf blight resistant taro (Colocasia esculenta) varieties for Bubia, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea
    Okpul, T... ; Ivančič, Anton, 1953- ; Simin, A.
    Thirty five taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) varieties resistant to taroleaf blight (TLB) (Phytophthora colocasiae Racib.) were evaluated at Bulbia agricultural research centre, Lae, Papua New ... Guinea, for yield components and eating quality in comparison with the locally preferred cultivar, Numkowec. The main factors affecting eating quality were presence ofconspicuous corm fibre and acridity. Leaf blight resistant varieties AN 65, 17, 50, 32, 46, 21, 12 and AN 20 had acceptable eating quality. Their corm yield ranged from 300g/plot (AN 50) to 570 g/plot (AN 21). However, their cormyield was not significantly different from that of Numkowec (430 g/plot). These resistant varieties are recommended to farmers in the Lae area based on their resistance to TLB and their similarities in corm yield and eating quality to Numkowec.
    Vir: Papua New Guinea journal of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. - ISSN 0256-954X (št. 1/2, 40, 1997, str. 13-18)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 1997
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1382700

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