INIVIT B-50, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar for cuban agriculture

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Alfredo Morales Rodríguez
Alfredo L. Morales Tejón
Dania Rodríguez de Sol
Sergio J. Rodríguez Morales
Lilian M. Morales Romero

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In Cuba it is necessary to continue working in the search for new sweet potato cultivars that are better adapted to climate variations, to obtain the proposed, hybridization method was used through manual crossings and subsequent selections, specially to drought, in different environment conditions (G x A, according its acronyms in Spanish). The INIVIT B-50 cultivar has excellent agronomic characteristics such as: a cycle of harvest between 110-120 days, low affectation by weevil (Cylas formicarius F.) and a potential yield of 58 t ha-1 of tuberus roots

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Morales Rodríguez, A., Morales Tejón, A. L., Rodríguez de Sol, D., Rodríguez Morales, S. J., & Morales Romero, L. M. (2017). INIVIT B-50, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar for cuban agriculture. Cultivos Tropicales, 38(2), 81. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1367
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