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VEGETABLE PROJECTS
National Sweet Potato Collaborators Trial 2003
K-State has participated in the National Sweet Potato
Collaborators Group for many years now, trailing advanced sweet potato cultivars
as they become available from breeding programs in North Carolina,
Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In the last few years we have also
trailed specialty types, in order to identify varieties that may provide Kansas
growers with options for niche markets. One type of sweet potato of potential
interest to K-State fans would be a purple-skinned and -fleshed variety.
Pathogen-tested planting materials have become available from major sweet potato
programs, and these appear to off great advantages to growers. This summer we
plan to: a) run a scaled down version of the national trial including use of
pathogen-tested check cultivars, b) maintain and multiply seed of specialty
sweet potato varieties that have performed well in trials at Haysville over the
past few years, and c) initiate selection of a purple sweet potato variety from
seedling nursery.
For additional information contact Dr. Ted Carey.
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