INIVIT B-70, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar with higher early maturity and productivity

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Alfredo Morales Rodríguez
Dania Rodríguez de Sol
Alfredo L. Morales Tejón †
Alay Jiménez Medina
Yuniel Rodríguez García
Rosa Elena González Vázquez

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To obtain the new sweet potato cultivar, directed crosses were made between two parents, one early maturity and the other with high photosynthetic efficiency. The progenies resulting from the combinations showed a high variability for the characters early maturity, yield and the combination of both. The INIVIT B-70 cultivar has a harvest cycle of 100 days and a yield of 28 t ha-1 under production conditions.

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Morales Rodríguez, A., Rodríguez de Sol, D., Morales Tejón †, A. L., Jiménez Medina , A., Rodríguez García , Y., & González Vázquez , R. E. (2023). INIVIT B-70, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar with higher early maturity and productivity . Cultivos Tropicales, 44(4), https://cu-id.com/2050/v44n4e02. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1745
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Report of New Cultivar

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