INIVIT BM-90, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar with high anthocyanin content

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Alfredo L. Morales-Tejón
Dania Rodríguez de Sol
Alfredo Morales Rodríguez
Sergio J. Rodríguez-Morales
Nilo J. Masa-Estrada
Manuel A. Lima Díaz

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In recent years The Research Institute of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops (INIVIT according its acronyms in Spanish) has obtained a series of cultivars of purple mass with high content of anthocyanin pigments. By way of polycross were obtained the lines that over a period of six years of evaluation and selection, gave rise to the first cuban sweet potato cultivar completely purple mass and desirable agronomic characteristics called INIVIT BM-90. It is very important to have commercial cultivar with antioxidant power because its beneficial to the human health.

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Morales-Tejón, A. L., Rodríguez de Sol, D., Morales Rodríguez, A., Rodríguez-Morales, S. J., Masa-Estrada, N. J., & Lima Díaz, M. A. (2017). INIVIT BM-90, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar with high anthocyanin content. Cultivos Tropicales, 38(2), 80. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1366
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