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WE are interested to see that Dr. van der Plank1 has provided additional evidence for the view that the first European potatoes were short-day types from the Andes of South America rather than long-day adapted potatoes from Chile as the Russians have asserted.
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Nature, 157, 503 (1946).
Driver, C. M., and Hawkes, J. G., Bull. Imp. Bur. Plant Breed. and Genet., pp. 36 (1943).
Hawkes, J. G., Bull. Imp. Bur. Plant Breed, and Genet., pp. 142 (1944).
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HAWKES, J., DRIVER, C. Origin of the First European Potatoes and their Reaction to Length of Day. Nature 157, 591 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157591a0
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