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Sentinel: An Early Yellow-Fleshed Potato Cultivar Suitable for Fresh Market and Chip Processing
Sentinel (FV8957-10) is a new yellow-fleshed potato cultivar that produces a high yield of attractive round to oval tubers at early harvest. Sentinel is suitable for fresh market use and chip processing. It wa...
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Field evaluation of doubled haploid plants in the Apiaceae: dill (Anethum graveolens L.), caraway (Carum carvi L.), and fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)
The Apiaceae family includes vegetables, as well as herb and spice crops. Compared to major crops, there have been few breeding or genetic improvement programs for any of the Apiaceae, especially the herb and spi...
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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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Evaluation of abiotic stress tolerance of genetically modified potatoes (Solanum tuberosum cv. Desiree)
Abiotic stresses such as drought and extremes of temperature commonly reduce both yield and quality of potato. This study investigated the potential to use gene transfer technology to enhance the tolerance of ...
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Northstar: A high-yielding, white cold-storage chip** potato cultivar with attractive oval tubers resistant to late blight
‘Northstar’ (V0123-25) is a white-skinned, white-flesh, mid-season maturing potato cultivar suitable for cold storage chip**. It was selected from a cross made at the Lethbridge Research Centre of Agricultur...
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Pacific Russet: An early maturing, attractive russet cultivar with excellent culinary quality
Pacific Russet is a high-yielding, early maturing, oblong russet fresh market cultivar with excellent tuber appearance and culinary quality. In trials conducted in western Canada the yield of the new cultivar ...
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Alta Russet: An early-maturing, high-quality russet cultivar for wedge-cut french fry production
Alta Russet (Russet Nugget × Ranger Russet) is an early-maturing cultivar, with high yield and excellent processing quality (fry color and dry matter) coupled with a tuber size and shape profile ideal for the ...
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AC Glacier Chip: A High-yielding Chip Cultivar for Long-term Storage
AC Glacier Chip has a maincrop maturity, higher yields than Snowden and excellent quality (color and dry matter) for the chip industry. The tubers are oval and very uniform in size with white flesh. It perform...
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AC Maple Gold: A High-yielding Yellow-fleshed French Fry Cultivar
AC Maple Gold is a high-yielding oval/oblong, yellow-fleshed potato with an attractive appearance for the fresh market coupled with excellent french fry quality. The cultivar can be harvested early for french ...
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AC Peregrine Red: A High-yielding Red-skinned Fresh Market Cultivar
AC Peregrine Red is a maincrop cultivar that produces very uniform attractive tubers with a deep red skin color. Marketable yields and skin color retention in storage are superior to Norland in Canadian and so...
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AC Stampede Russet: A high-yielding oblong russet cultivar for the french fry and fresh market industries
AC Stampede Russet has a maincrop maturity, and the tubers reach maximum size in western Canada in early to mid-September. The tubers are attractive with russet skin, shallow eyes, an oblong shape, and are ver...
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Amisk: A clonal variant of Ranger Russet
Amisk was registered in Canada as a clonal variant of Ranger Russet in 1993. Amisk is similar to Ranger Russet in foliage and tuber morphology and DNA analysis did not detect a polymorphism. However, under Can...
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AC Ptarmigan: An early maturing potato cultivar with good chip** and fresh market quality
AC Ptarmigan is an early maturing, buff skin, cream flesh potato cultivar which has good, stable chip quality and can be processed directly from the field. The cultivar has uniform attractive tubers with shall...
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Niska: A maincrop chip** potato cultivar with high specific gravity and good quality after storage
Niska is a white-skinned, white-fleshed potato cultivar with a maincrop maturity, stable yield and chip** quality and good storage characteristics. It has considerable resistance to Common scab, Early blight...
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Response of lettuce to pre- and post-transplant phosphorus and pre-transplant inoculation with a VA-mycorrhizal fungus
Pre-transplant inoculation of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) seedlings with the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungusGlomus aggregatum (Smith and Schenck emend. Koske) increased P uptake and dry matter yields afte...
