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Carbon Disulphide (CS2) Promotes Sprouting and Affects the Metabolism of Harvested Minitubers Grown from True Potato Seed

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Chemical agents may be used to overcome dormancy in potato tubers so as to permit early planting. In this paper, the effect of carbon disulphide on sprouting and related metabolic processes in potato tubers grown from true potato seed (TPS) was investigated. Carbon disulphide was applied to potato tubers derived from TPS, at a rate of 20 ml m−3 container volume for 72 h. It accelerated tuber sprouting and increased tuber weight loss. It also caused an increase in the respiration rate, as well as ethylene emission from the tubers during the first 6 days after treatment. The respiration rate of carbon disulphide-treated tubers remained at a higher level than that of untreated controls for 35 days after treatment. In addition, carbon disulphide increased the concentrations of the soluble sugars sucrose and fructose, but not glucose, in the tuber tissues (buds, parenchyma). These findings suggest that carbon disulphide releases potato minitubers from dormancy and that dormancy breakage is associated with changes in tuber metabolism prior to the visible sprouting.

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Abbreviations

CS2 :

Carbon disulphide

DAT:

Days after treatment

TPS:

True potato seed

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Acknowledgements

We are most grateful to Professor Harold C. Passam for reviewing the manuscript and to Dr. Noel E. Pallais, Seed Production Specialist and the International Potato Centre (CIP) for kindly providing the TPS used in these experiments.

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  1. Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos, 11855, Athens, Greece

    Theodora Karanisa, Ioannis C. Karapanos & Konstantinos A. Akoumianakis

  2. Department of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, Antikalamos, 24100, Kalamata, Greece

    Alexios A. Alexopoulos

  3. Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Morphology, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos, 11855, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Tsaniklidis

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Karanisa, T., Alexopoulos, A.A., Tsaniklidis, G. et al. Carbon Disulphide (CS2) Promotes Sprouting and Affects the Metabolism of Harvested Minitubers Grown from True Potato Seed. Potato Res. 59, 345–356 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11540-017-9334-3

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