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Tubers of the USDA potato accession PI 234011PI 234011 “Pitu Huayacka”

Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigenum 2x

PI 234011 at Genesys

Accession Details

A stenotomum type diploid collected in Bolivia before 1956.  GRIN notes resistance to early blight, Fusarium, Verticillium, frost.  A type cytoplasm (Hosaka 1988).  Kozukue (2008) found a very high TGA level of 74.6 mg/100g for cortex material from this accession.

Observations

TPS.  Tubers elongate, elliptic, falcate, round to compressed.  Whites, yellows, and reds with white or light yellow flesh, some with a little bit of red.  Moderately deep eyes.  Some tubers sprouting at harvest.  Short to long stolons.  Stolon mats.  Mostly long day.  Heavy flowering and seed set.

Commentary

La Barre (1947) gives a description for the landrace of this name: pitu wayaqha, “flour bag”. Swett, highly farinaceous, reddish skin, superficial eyes, irregular oblong shape. Resists frost poorly; grown at 3,200 meters in the region of Ilabaya, which is hilly and temperate, and with a relatively rich soil. (Red skin, very starchy, with pulp.)