‘Mariata’, new Cuban potato cultivar selected with high and stable yield for fresh consumption

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Jorge L. Salomón
Juan G. Castillo
Beatriz Araujo
Eric Díaz
Ramón Tejeda
Odalis Céspedes
Aymara Pérez
Wilson Núñez
Isneydis Velázquez

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The potato variety catalogs (Solanum tuberosum L.) have reported more than 5,000 cultivars. In Cuba the new potato cultivar ‘Mariata’ is the number 16 that is obtained and recorded, it was selected from a cross made at the International Potato Center located in Peru. Its progeny consists of 3000 botanical seeds was screened for 11 years at the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, and it was evaluated and characterized the hybrid family from the selection of ‘Mariata’ for expressing stable and high performance as well as, good behavior before the country’s major pests in field conditions.

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Salomón, J. L., Castillo, J. G., Araujo, B., Díaz, E., Tejeda, R., Céspedes, O., Pérez, A., Núñez, W., & Velázquez, I. (2018). ‘Mariata’, new Cuban potato cultivar selected with high and stable yield for fresh consumption. Cultivos Tropicales, 39(2), 110. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1455
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Report of New Cultivar

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