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 x doddsii

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Series: Tuberosa

EBN: 2

Ploidy: Diploid

Segregation: Disomic

Self-compatible: No

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Description

Solanum x doddsii (doddsii, in honor of potato researcher Kenneth S. Dodds) is a hybrid species native to dry valleys in the Bolivian Andes. Plants reach about two feet tall. Tubers are round, reaching about an inch in diameter. Flowers light purple. Berries small and round.

Vega (1995) found that this species is less frost tolerant than domesticated potato.

Condition	Level of Resistance	Source

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. x doddsii	Low	Minimal			Jackson (1999)
S. x doddsii	S. tuberosum	None	None			Jackson (1999)