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Growth Strategies for a Declining Market- the German Fresh Potato Market
To determine potential growth strategies for the German fresh potato market, production area, harvested quantities, producer prices and consumption values for the German potato market were examined using trend...
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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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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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Marker Assisted Selection of Potato Clones that Process with Light Chip Color
Development of cultivars with acceptable chip color is a major but challenging objective of breeding programs world-wide. Currently clones with suitable chip color are identified by including breeding populati...
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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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Verticillium wilt resistant germplasm-release of clone LRC18-21 and derivatives
Verticillium wilt is an important disease affecting potato tuber yield and quality. In North America the major commercial cultivars are susceptible, and management strategies for control rely mainly on soil fu...
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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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Resistance toFusarium sambucinum in wild and cultivatedSolanum species
Several species ofFusarium cause both dry rot in storage and seedpiece decay in the field, which results in severe losses in all major potato-growing regions. In temperate climates twoFusarium species are the pri...
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Inheritance of the response of fry color to low temperature storage
Most commercial potato processing cultivars rapidly accumulate reducing sugars at storage temperatures below 10 C, producing an unacceptably dark fried product. Development of cultivars with the ability to pro...
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Identification of late blight, Colorado potato beetle, and blackleg resistance in three Mexican and two South American wild 2x (1EBN)Solanum species
Wild potatoes are important sources of genes for resistance to disease and insect pests. A collection of wild Mexican and South AmericanSolarium species from the US potato Genebank was evaluated under laboratory ...
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Rhizoctonia disease of potatoes (Rhizoctonia solani): Fungicidal efficacy and cultivar susceptibility
Rhizoctonia stem canker and black scurf is an economically important disease of potatoes in Alberta and around the world. It reduces the quality and yield of potatoes and has become an important impediment for...
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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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Development and characterization of an adapted form ofdroopy, a diploid potato mutant deficient in abscisic acid
A cultivated diploid potato breeding population has been selected for adaptation to growing, tuberizing (under relatively long days), and storing (including long dormancy) under New Brunswick conditions. In th...
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The relationship between yield, mainstem number, and tuber number in five maincrop and two early-maturing cultivars
Using data from an 11-year period, total and marketable yield were related, using regression analysis, to mainstem and tuber number for five maincrop varieties (Russet Burbank, Shepody, Atlantic, Norchip, and ...
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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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A relational database system for potato breeding programs
Using a desktop database management system (DBMS), a relational database system was developed to replace outdated systems for data storage, retrieval and summary in a potato breeding research program. The new ...
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Multi-year evaluation ofClavibacter michiganensis subsp.sepedonicus disease symptoms in cultivated potato genotypes
The expression of foliar and tuber bacterial ring rot (BRR) symptoms in 108 cultivated potato genotypes inoculated withClavibacter michiganensis subsp.sepedonicum was examined in field experiments during 1986 to ...