The effect of certain sprout‐depressant treatments on sugar accumulation in stored potatoes

Abstract

King Edward potatoes were treated with maleic hydrazide as a pre-harvest foliar spray or with a preparation containing 3% of tetrachloronitrobenzene. In neither case was there any effect on the accumulation of reducing sugars when the potatoes were stored under cool conditions. A second experiment, in which two different maleic hydrazide treatments were given, also showed no effect on reducing sugar or sucrose behaviour during subsequent cool storage of the tubers.