Report of new varieties �??COROJO 2006�??: new variety of cuban dark tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.)

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Vivaldo García Morejón

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In the Tobacco Experimental Station in San Juan yMartinez, Pinar del Río province, during the tobacco crops2001-2002, was made a sexual cross with the objective ofobtaining a dark tobacco variety of tobacco with more yield thatthe commercial �??Criollo 98�??, resistant to the blue mold(Peronospora hyocyami de Bary), black shank (Phytophthoraparasitica Dast. var. Nicotianae Breda de Haan), tobacco mosaicvirus (VMT) and weather fleck. After five generations ofself-pollination and selection by the pedigree method, sevenresistant varieties were obtained. The cross originated the newvariety `Corojo 2006´ that it surpassed the `Criollo 98´.

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García Morejón, V. (2013). Report of new varieties �??COROJO 2006�??: new variety of cuban dark tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Cultivos Tropicales, 34(2), 45. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/425
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