Alturas: A multi-purpose, Russet potato cultivar with high yield and tuber specific gravity

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Novy ◽  
D. L. Corsini ◽  
S. L. Love ◽  
J. J. Pavek ◽  
A. R. Mosley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Potato Cultivar ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity

scholarly journals UCC-C4243 Dessication of Potato Vines

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Pavlista
Keyword(s):  
Solanum Tuberosum ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Potato Cultivar ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
Gravity Effects ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Cultivar Atlantic ◽  
Vine Desiccation ◽  
Yield Trials ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity

Chemical vine desiccation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is widely used in the USA. Diquat is the major vine desiccant but has some drawbacks such as incomplete stem desiccation allowing regrowth. A new herbicide, UCC-C4243, was evaluated as a replacement for diquat. The potato cultivar `Atlantic' was treated with UCC-C4243 (a.i.) at 0.25 to 2.5 oz/acre (17.5 to 175 g·ha-1), and leaf and stem desiccation efficiency was compared to diquat (a.i.) at 4 oz/acre (280 g·ha-1). Split applications of UCC-C4243 were compared to double applications of diquat. Subjective evaluations were made on regrowth and tuber skinning, and objective measurements on specific gravity and yield. Trials were conducted from 1991 to 1995 at Scottsbluff, NE. UCC-C4243 at 1.5 oz/acre (105 g·ha-1) and higher significantly increased leaf and stem desiccation compared to diquat. There was no difference between single and split applications of UCC-C4243. UCC-C4243 suppressed regrowth at 1 oz/acre (70 g·ha-1) and prevented it at 2.5 oz/acre at 3 weeks after treatment while diquat did not. Skin set of tubers was promoted equally by all desiccants. Specific gravity was not lowered by UCC-C4243 but was by diquat. Yields were not affected by either UCC-C4243 at 1.5 oz/acre or diquat at 4 oz/acre. UCC-C4243 was more effective than diquat as a vine desiccant without the regrowth and tuber specific gravity effects associated with diquat.

THE EFFECT OF SEEDPIECE POPULATION AND HARVEST DATE ON YIELD AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF CARLTON POTATOES IN MANITOBA

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 1019-1025
Author(s):  
B. L. REX ◽  
W. A. RUSSELL ◽  
H. R. WOLFE
Keyword(s):  
Solanum Tuberosum ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Hollow Heart ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Rainfed Conditions ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity ◽  
Final Harvest

The effect of seedpiece population on Carlton potatoes for the early tablestock market was evaluated under rainfed conditions in southern Manitoba over the 1982, 1983 and 1985 growing seasons. Populations of 21.7, 26.3, 33.3, and 45.5 thousand seedpieces per hectare were harvested 75, 85 and 95 d after planting each year. Total and marketable tuber yields increased with population. Tuber specific gravity increased with population in 1982 and in the first two harvests in 1983, but no trends were observed in 1985 and in the final harvest in 1983. The incidence of hollow heart in marketable tubers was very low in all 3 yr, and was not related to seedpiece population or date of harvest. Net crop value (NCV) usually increased with successive harvests within each year, and generally showed a positive relationship with seedpiece population.Key words: Potato, Solanum tuberosum L., Carlton, seedpiece population, hollow heart, specific gravity

ESTIMATION OF GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMBINING ABILITIES IN POTATO

1976 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.C.C. Tai
Keyword(s):  
Solanum Tuberosum ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Combining Ability ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Stabilizing Selection ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Selection For

Seven quantitative traits of the cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) were studied in a partial diallel cross experiment. Large specific combining ability effects were observed for total and marketable yields, total number of tubers, and number of marketable tubers. Large general combining ability effects were obtained for average weight per tuber, average weight per marketable tuber, and specific gravity. The SCA effect for specific gravity was also significant. It is suggested that the difference of combining ability performance noted above for the two yield components was due to a long history of directional selection for high yield and stabilizing selection for tubers within the marketable size range. There were low frequencies of both GCA and SCA effects showing significant difference from the population mean. This is interpreted as an affirmation of the narrow genetic base which exists in the present gene pool in Solanum tuberosum. Heritability estimates based on GCA effects indicated that parents can be efficiently selected for average tuber weight and specific gravity.

scholarly journals Selection for Tuber Characters Can Maintain High Specific Gravity in a Diploid Potato Breeding Population

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.G. Haynes ◽  
F.L. Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Recurrent Selection ◽  
Breeding Population ◽  
High Specific Gravity ◽  
Solarium Tuberosum ◽  
Hybrid Population ◽  
Base Population ◽  
Diploid Potato Breeding ◽  
Growing Conditions ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity

A base population of high specific gravity clones was established from a diploid hybrid population of Solarium tuberosum Group Phureja and Solarium tuberosum Group Stenotomum previously adapted to the long-day growing conditions in North Carolina. This base population was subjected to two 2-year cycles of recurrent selection. During each cycle, selections in the field were made on the basis of tuber smoothness, shape, and size. Tubers from unselected clones were bulked by plots. Tuber specific gravity was determined for the selected and unselected (bulk) clones. Tuber specific gravity was significantly greater in the selected than in the unselected clones in each cycle of selection.

EFFECTS OF APPLIED NITROGEN ON YIELDS, TUBER SIZES, AND SPECIFIC GRAVITIES OF TWO POTATO CULTIVARS

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. MUNRO ◽  
R. P. WHITE ◽  
J. B. SANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Solanum Tuberosum ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
Potato Cultivars ◽  
N Application ◽  
Significant Yield ◽  
Yield Responses ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity ◽  
Applied Nitrogen

Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Sebago and Netted Gem) were grown at several locations on Prince Edward Island over a 5-yr period with rates of applied N from zero to 336 kg/ha. Significant yield responses to applied N occurred at all locations each year with each cultivar. At most locations, 112–134 kg N/ha was adequate for maximum yields. The response of the two cultivars to applied N was similar. Applied N up to 134 kg/ha increased the percentage yields of A-size tubers. Tuber specific gravity was affected by N application at only 8 of the 15 locations. Generally, excessive rates of applied N reduced specific gravity but rates sufficient for maximum yields were not deterimental.

Cured Dairy Compost Influence on Weed Competition and on ‘Snowden' Potato Yield

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Lindsey ◽  
Karen A. Renner ◽  
Wesley J. Everman
Keyword(s):  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Potato Yield ◽  
Yield Reduction ◽  
Weed Competition ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Common Lambsquarters ◽  
Hairy Nightshade ◽  
Giant Foxtail ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity

Potatoes are an important global food crop typically produced in high-input systems in temperate zones. Growers that have access to compost may use it to improve soil health and increase tuber yields, but compost may also increase weed competition by increasing early-season water availability and weed growth. A field study at the Michigan State University Montcalm Research farm in 2010 and 2011 investigated the impact of compost on weed competition in potato. Potatoes were grown in field plots with 0, 4,000, or 8,000 kg carbon (C) ha−1of compost under weed-free conditions, and in competition with common lambsquarters, giant foxtail, and hairy nightshade. Compost did not increase biomass or seed production of any weed species. Giant foxtail and hairy nightshade at 5.3 plants per meter of row reduced potato yield by 20%; common lambsquarters reduced yield by 45%. The yield reduction by giant foxtail and hairy nightshade was due to a decrease in tuber bulking, whereas yield reductions from common lambsquarters were a result of lower tuber set and bulking. Potato yield increased 5 to 15% in compost compared to non-compost treatments; tuber specific gravity decreased by 0.3% in composted treatments. Across weed densities, elevated soil potassium levels in the 8,000 kg C ha−1composted treatment may have increased potato yield and decreased tuber specific gravity.

scholarly journals Determination of Nutrient Solutions for Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Seed Production under Aeroponics Production System

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lemma Tessema ◽  
Abebe Chindi ◽  
W. Giorgis Gebremedhin ◽  
Atsede Solomon ◽  
Egata Shunka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Solution ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
Potato Cultivar ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Potato Seed ◽  
Nutritional Requirement ◽  
Nutrient Solutions

AbstractIn soilless culture like aeroponics, nutrient optimization is the most critical factor to produce high quality and high yield of clean potato seed. Each crop has an optimum nutritional requirement. Even each potato cultivar may require a specific nutrient solution in an aeroponics unit. A nutrient optimization experiment was conducted at Holetta agricultural research center to study the effect of different nutrient solution levels on the physical quality and yield of potato mini-tubers. The treatments were four different nutrient solutions of greenhouse grade macro nutrients measured in (g) for the preparation of 500 liter volume of nutrient solution that is to be restocked when the nutrient tank becomes empty. The nutrient EC and pH were adjusted as per the requirements. A=(118 g CaNO

Interaction of Metribuzin and Phorate on ‘Atlantic’ and ‘Norchip’ Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Cultivars

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harlene Hatterman-Valenti ◽  
Vince F. Lawson ◽  
Micheal D. K. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Solanum Tuberosum ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Tuber Yield ◽  
Size Tuber ◽  
Chipping Potatoes ◽  
Plant Injury ◽  
Tuber Specific Gravity

The effects of metribuzin herbicide and phorate insecticide were studied on summer harvest chipping-potatoes at Muscatine, IA, from 1989 to 1991. Phorate at 1.5 kg/ha increased total and ‘A’-size tuber yield and tuber specific gravity. Metribuzin applied at 0.56 kg/ha postemergence decreased total and ‘A’-size tuber yield. Metribuzin applied at 0.56 kg/ha preemergence and 0.28 kg/ha postemergence did not reduce Atlantic cultivar yield. Metribuzin did not affect ‘B’-size tuber yield or specific gravity. Phorate in combination with metribuzin did not increase plant injury or reduce tuber yield.

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