Crop & Food Research Institute, New Zealand

Published work on taro from this Crown Research Institute.

Scheffer, J. J. C. (1996) Japanese staple potential (Japanese taro). New Zealand Farmer, Nov./Dec issue, p. 27.

Follett, J. M. Japanese Taro - an Asian vegetable (1996) Crop & Food Research Broadsheet 74. 2 pp.

Follett, J. M. and Scheffer, J. J. C. (1997) Japanese Taro - A New Zealand perspective. Combined Proceedings of the International Plant Propagators' Society 46: 421-424.

Pearson, M. N., Bussell, W. T., and Scheffer, J. J. C. (1998). New Plant Disease Record in New Zealand: Dasheen Mosaic Potyvirus Infecting Taro (Colocasia esculenta Schott). New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 26, 69-70.

Scheffer, J. J. C., Douglas, J. A., and Triggs, C. M. (1999) Preliminary studies on the agronomic requirements of Japanese taro (Colocasia esculenta). Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Agronomy Society of New Zealand 29: 41-46.

Scheffer, J. J. C., and Douglas, J. A. (2000) Taro: A new crop Japanese variety. Commercial Grower 55: 37-38

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