This page is a draft, part of our ongoing wild potato project. I’ll probably be adding information to the species pages through 2020 at least, but I’m making them public since they may be useful even incomplete.

Solanum mochiquense

Common Name(s):

Synonyms: S. chancayense, S. incahuasinum

Series:

EBN: 1

Ploidy: Diploid

Segregation: Disomic

Self-compatible: No

Cytoplasm Type:

Description

This species can survive frosts down to 27 degrees F (-3 C) (Li 1977).

Condition	Level of Resistance	Source
Alfalfa Mosaic Virus	Resistant	Horvath 1989 (as S. mochicense)
Potato Virus X	Resistant	Horvath 1989 (as S. mochicense)

Glykoalkaloid content

Cultivation

I have found seeds of this species easy to germinate using the standard conditions for S. tuberosum.

Breeding

Crosses with S. tuberosum

Female	Male	Berry Set	Seed Set	Germination	Ploidy	Source
S. tuberosum	S. mochiquense	None	None			Jackson (1999)
S. mochiquense	S. tuberosum	None	None			Jackson (1999)