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Monona: A new variety of potato, distinctive for excellent chip color after numerous storage treatments

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Monona is a new medium-early variety of potato, distinctive for the excellent color of its chips after numerous storage treatments, and possesses resistance to mild and rugose mosaic diseases. It was produced from a cross of a selection from Katahdin, selfed with a selection of Chippewa selfed.

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  1. Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

    F. J. Stevenson (Genetic consultant to Frito-Lay, Inc., and Collaborator) & R. V. Akeley (Horticulturist)

  2. Frito-Lay, Inc., East Grand Forks, Minnesota

    George Newton (Potato Procurement)

  3. Research Department of Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, Texas

    Donald Isleib (Physiologist)

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  1. F. J. Stevenson
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Monona: Name of a lake in the environs of Madison, Wisconsin. Most of the tests of this variety for chip color and specific gravity were made in the laboratory in Madison.

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Stevenson, F.J., Akeley, R.V., Newton, G. et al. Monona: A new variety of potato, distinctive for excellent chip color after numerous storage treatments. American Potato Journal 42, 253–255 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861153

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