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: the indexing of potatoes that is done by preplanting an eye of each potato

— called also tuber indexing

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“Eye indexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20indexing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2020.

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