Sugar accumulation in chemically debudded potato tubers during cold storage

Potato tuber buds may be excised by immersion of the tubers in a mixture of EtOH-Me₂CO (1:1) for 4 hr. This enabled the study of the effect of tuber aging (at 17°) on the starch-to-sugar conversion during storage at 4°, in the absence of complications due to sprouting. Sugar accumulation during a two-week period of storage at 4° decreased with increasing time of prior storage at 17°.