- Turkish Journal Of Field Crops
- Vol: 18 Issue: 1
- Effect of Bio-Activators on the Tuber Yield and Tuber Size of Potatoes
Effect of Bio-Activators on the Tuber Yield and Tuber Size of Potatoes
Authors : Gulsum OZTURK, Zihin YILDIRIM
Pages : 82-86
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Publication Date : 2013-01-01
Article Type : Other
Abstract :Two bio-activators, the Crop-set and the ISR-2000 were sprayed on the potato plants before flowering in order to increase tuber set and tuber size in a field trial conducted at Bornova, Izmir-Turkey in 2009 and 2010. The Crop-set increased the number of tubers per plants, plot yield, tuber width over the control in 2009 and 2010. The ISR-2000 had the highest single tuber weight such as 36.7 g in 2009 and 35.9 g in 2010. It could be concluded that bio-activators could be used in the minituber propagation stage in order to increase tuber number and tuber size in a seed potato programKeywords : Bio-activator, number of tubers, potato, tuber size, tuber yield