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Nicotine and Sugar Contents of Mammoth Flue-Cured Tobacco Varieties¹

Synopsis: The nicotine contents of the leaves of the last four primings (harvests) from mammoth selections of flue-cured tobacco were much lower than those of leaves of comparable stalk positions from standard varieties. There was little evidence of a marked dilution of reducing sugars in the cured leaves of the mammoth selections.

² Professor of Field Crops, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Experimental Statistics, and Professor of Chemistry, respectively.