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Vanguard Russet: A Fresh Market Potato Cultivar with Medium-Early Maturity and Long Dormancy
Vanguard Russet (TX08352-5Ru) is a medium-early maturing potato cultivar released by Texas A&M AgriLife Research in 2018. Vanguard Russet produces attractive oblong to long tubers with medium russet skin and w...
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Cultivar Improvement with Exotic Germplasm: An Example from Potato
Potato breeders have abundant germplasm resources at their disposal in wild relatives and landrace varieties. Exotic germplasm has been used mainly for disease resistance and processing quality genes. Linkage ...
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TerraRossa: A Mid-Season Specialty Potato with Red Flesh and Skin and Resistance to Common Scab and Golden Cyst Nematode
TerraRossa (POR01PG20–12) is a mid-season specialty potato, released by Oregon State University, and is a product of the Northwest Potato Variety (Tri-State) Development Program. This cultivar is unique among ...
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Reveille Russet: An Early, Widely Adapted, High-Count-Carton Russet for the Fresh Market
Reveille Russet (ATX91137-1Ru) is a uniform, medium-early, high yielding, high pack-out, fresh market russet cultivar, with wide adaptability, released by Texas A&M AgriLife Research in 2015. It resulted from ...
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ATTX961014-1R/Y a.k.a. Sierra RoseTM: A Red-Skin, Yellow-Flesh Potato Cultivar for the Specialty/Gourmet Market
ATTX961014-1R/Y is a high yielding, red- skin, yellow- flesh cultivar which was released by Texas A&M AgriLife Research in 2012. It resulted from a cross of A90601-2RDY(♀) by Mazama(♂). ATTX961014-1R/Y is susc...
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Effect of Harvest Date on PI2, Total Protein, TGA Content and Tuber Performance in Potato
Proteinase inhibitor 2 (PI2), isolated from potatoes is associated with the release of cholecystokinin (CCK), a satiety factor in humans. PI2 is the active ingredient of Slendesta® Potato Extract. The effect o...
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Alta Crown: A New Russet Potato Cultivar with Resistance to Common Scab and A Low Incidence of Tubers Deformities
Alta Crown (CV92028-1) is a new russet potato cultivar with resistance to common scab and a low incidence of tuber deformities. It was selected at the Lethbridge Research Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Ca...
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Essential genes in proximal 3L heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster
We have further characterized essential loci within the centric heterochromatin of the left arm of chromosome 3 (3L) of Drosophila melanogaster, using EMS, radiation and P element mutagenesis. We failed to find ...
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Century Russet: A high-yielding fresh market cultivar with verticillium resistance
Century Russet, a high-yielding, late-maturing variety suitable for fresh tablestock use, was jointly released in 1995 by Agricultural Experiment Stations in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, California, an...
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Russet Legend: A full season long Russet for processing and fresh market use
Russet Legend, a moderately late maturing variety especially suitable for frozen French fry processing but also acceptable for tablestock use (boiling, and baking), was jointly released by the Agricultural Exp...
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Ranger Russet: A long Russet potato variety for processing and fresh market with improved quality, disease resistance, and yield
Ranger Russet, a new full-season potato variety, was jointly released to growers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado on May...
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Russet Nugget: A fresh market and processing potato cultivar with resistance to common scab
Russet Nugget is an oblong, smooth, high yielding potato with fresh market and processing qualities. It emerges quickly, produces an erect, large, vigorous vine with a profusion of white flowers, and is late m...
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Frontier Russet: A new potato variety for early fresh and processing use with resistance to Fusarium dry rot
Frontier Russet, a new, medium-early potato variety, was jointly released to growers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado on...
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Gemchip: A new potato variety with chip** quality and verticillium resistance for the Western U.S.
Gemchip, a new potato chip** variety, was released jointly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado on August 9, 1989. Gemchip...
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Ute Russet: An oblong Russet potato cultivar with resistance to leafroll net necrosis andSclerotium rolfsii
Ute Russet is an oblong, smooth, fresh market potato with a dark net. It emerges slowly, produces an erect, medium sized vine, and is late maturing. Ute Russet is resistant toSclerotium rolfsii Sacc, and leafroll...
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Potato clone variation in blackspot and soft rot susceptibility, redox potential, ascorbic acid, dry matter and potassium
Tubers of 11 potato clones were compared for susceptibility to blackspot and soft rot, redox potential, ascorbic acid, dry matter, and potassium content. Evaluations were made before and after 6 mo storage at ...
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Sangre: An oval, high quality red potato
Sangre is a medium maturing, high quality, fresh market red potato adapted to irrigated areas of the West. Tubers are deep red, oval to oblong, shallow-eyed and have a thick skin. Baking and boiling quality is...
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Chromosome replacement in mixed populations of compound-2L; free-2R and standard strains of Drosophila melanogaster
Crosses between compound-2L; free-2R (free-arm) and standard strains of Drosophila melanogaster produce two classes of inviable aneuploid hybrids in equal proportions: monosomic 2L and trisomic 2L. The lethal per...
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Use of mineral element content of potato petioles for predicting yield potential
Six potato clones (Kennebec, Norchip, Norland, Red Pontiac, Russet Burbank, and M6664) were grown in a split-plot designed experiment to study the relationship of tuber yield and the mineral element content of...
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The influence of potassium fertilizer application on tuber yield and mineral element content of potato petioles during the growing season
Potassium was applied at rates equivalent to 0, 135, and 250 pounds per acre (0, 151, 180 kg K/ha) to study the effect of soil applied K on tuber yields and concentration of mineral elements in the petioles of...
