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Tubers of the USDA potato accession PI 234013PI 234013 “Thanta Guagua”

Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigenum 2x

PI 234013 at Genesys

Accession Details

A stenotomum type diploid collected in Bolivia before 1956.  GRIN notes resistance to Fusarium, PVM, ringrot, PSTVd.  S type cytoplasm (Hosaka 1988).

Observations

TPS.  Tubers elongate.  Whites, reds, yellows, and a few blues.  Mostly white to light yellow flesh.  Shallow to medium eyes.  Mostly short day.  Majority sprouting at harvest.  Low to moderate flowering and berrying.  Very low seed counts per berry.

Commentary

As near as I can tell, “thanta guagua” translates in Aymara to “bread baby.”