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VIRUS diseases are estimated to cause a loss in Great Britain of one million tons of potatoes a year, and this in spite of the importation of large quantities of seed potatoes; for example, last autumn and winter the Government imported 400,000 tons of seed potatoes from Scotland and Ireland.
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SMITH, K., MARKHAM, R. Importance of Potato Virus X in the Growing of Potatoes. Nature 155, 38–39 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155038a0
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