INDUCED MUTATION IN SWEET POTATO AIMED AT IMPROVED QUALITY AND DROUGHT ADAPTATION
Induced mutation was incorporated into the South African sweet potato breeding programme to improve elite cultivars for yield, drought adaptation and nutritional quality. Three cream-fleshed cultivars namely Ndou, Monate and Mokone were selected, propagated in vitro and subjected to gamma ray mutage...
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University of the Free State
2014
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| Online Access: | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-10292014-124540/restricted/ |