Procedure for Determining Intercellular Space of Roots and Specific Gravity of Sweetpotato Root Tissue1
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- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Horticultural Science in HortScience
- Vol. 3 (1) , 44-45
- https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.3.1.44
Abstract
Recent studies showed that at harvest sweetpotato storage roots contain as much as 10 milliliters of intercellular space per 100 milliliters of root; during storage intercellular space increases to the extent that it becomes visible and is classified as pithiness or internal breakdown (1). A preliminary report shows that by accounting for the intercellular space tissue specific gravity values can be computed and correlated with drymatter content in much the same manner as for Irish potatoes (2). At harvest intercellular space for each of four varieties was relatively constant for a given variety and differed significantly among varieties (4).Keywords
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