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Effect of boron in fertilizer upon quality of dehydrated white potatoes

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  1. Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Disease, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Research Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md.

    Joseph S. Caldwell, Charles W. Culpepper & Bailey E. Brown

  2. Soils and Fertilizer Research, Summer Fertilizer Company, Inc., Baltimore, Md.

    Bailey E. Brown

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Caldwell, J.S., Culpepper, C.W. & Brown, B.E. Effect of boron in fertilizer upon quality of dehydrated white potatoes. American Potato Journal 24, 397–412 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02883959

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