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Mountain Gem Russet: a Potato Variety with High Early and Full Season Yield Potential and Excellent Fresh Market and Early Processing Characteristics

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Mountain Gem Russet is a potato variety notable for having both high early and full-season yields of oblong-long, medium-russeted tubers with higher protein content than those of standard potato varieties. Mountain Gem Russet has greater resistance to soft rot, tuber late blight, growth cracks and second growth than Russet Burbank. Mountain Gem Russet produced greater total and U.S. No. 1 yields than Ranger Russet and Russet Norkotah in early-season trials conducted in Idaho, Oregon and Washington over a 3 year period. In full-season trials conducted in five western states over a 4 year period, average total and U.S. No. 1 yields for Mountain Gem Russet were almost always higher than Ranger Russet and Russet Burbank, with specific gravities averaging between these two standard cultivars. It maintains acceptable reducing sugar concentrations and fry quality when stored at 8.9 °C and has displayed a high level of fry color uniformity from tuber stem to bud end providing good potential for early processing. High fresh merit ratings and taste panel sensory scores comparable to Russet Burbank indicate good fresh market potential for Mountain Gem Russet. It was released in 2015 by the USDA-ARS and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and is a product of the Pacific Northwest Potato Variety (Tri-State) Development Program.

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Mountain Gem Russet es una variedad de papa notable por tener altos rendimientos en ambos ciclos, el temprano y el completo, de tubérculos oblongos largos, medianos corrugados, con más alto contenido de proteína que el de variedades de papa estándar. Mountain Gem Russet tiene mayor resistencia a la pudrición blanda, al tizón tardío del tubérculo, a deformaciones de tubérculo y a la mayoría de los defectos internos y externos que Russet Burbank. Mountain Gem Russet produjo más rendimientos totales y U.S. 1 que Ranger Russet y Russet Norkotah en ensayos de ciclo temprano conducidos en Idaho, Oregon y Washington en un período de tres años. En ensayos de ciclo completo desarrollados en cinco Estados del oeste en un período de cuatro años, el promedio de los rendimientos totales y de U.S. 1 para Mountain Gem Russet fueron casi siempre más altos que Ranger Russet y Russet Burbank, con gravedades específicas promediando entre estas dos variedades estándar. Mantiene concentraciones aceptables de azucares reductores y calidad de freído cuando se almacena a 8.9 °C y ha exhibido un alto nivel de uniformidad en el color del freído desde la base hasta el extremo apical, aportando buen potencial para proceso temprano. Altos rendimientos totales y de U.S. 1 tempranos y tardíos, aunados con excelentes cualidades culinarias y nutricionales, hacen de Mountain Gem Russet una excelente candidata también para la producción de mercado fresco. Se liberó en el 2015 por el USDA-ARS y las Estaciones Agrícolas Experimentales de Idaho, Oregon y Washington, y es un producto del Programa de Desarrollo de Variedades de Papa del Pacífico Noroccidental (Tri-State).

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Margaret Bain, Mel Chappell, Lorie Ewing, Nora Fuller, Mark Fristad, Darren Hall, Charlene Miller, Brian Schneider, Lura Schroeder, Steven Wheeler, and Todd Carter, as well as our collaborators in the Western Regional Potato Variety Trials, and the Idaho, Oregon and Washington Potato Commissions for their contributions to the development and release of Mountain Gem Russet. We also express thanks to our industry cooperators for their substantial contributions to this research effort. Development of Mountain Gem Russet was partially funded by USDA/NIFA.

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  1. Idaho Falls R&E Center, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID, 83402-1575, USA

    J. C. Stark

  2. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Aberdeen R&E Center, Aberdeen, ID, 83210, USA

    R. G. Novy & J. L. Whitworth

  3. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    N. R. Knowles & M. J. Pavek

  4. Southwest Idaho R&E Center, University of Idaho, Parma, ID, 83660, USA

    M. Thornton

  5. McCain Foods, Burley, ID, 83318, USA

    R. Spear

  6. USDA/ARS, Prosser, WA, 99350, USA

    C. R. Brown

  7. Klamath Basin R&E Center, Oregon State University, Klamath Falls, OR, 97603, USA

    B. A. Charlton

  8. Hermiston Agricultural R&E Center, Oregon State University, Hermiston, OR, 97838, USA

    V. Sathuvalli

  9. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA

    S. Yilma

  10. Kimberly R & E Center, University of Idaho, Twin Falls, ID, 83341, USA

    N. Olsen & T. L. Brandt

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Stark, J.C., Novy, R.G., Whitworth, J.L. et al. Mountain Gem Russet: a Potato Variety with High Early and Full Season Yield Potential and Excellent Fresh Market and Early Processing Characteristics. Am. J. Potato Res. 93, 158–171 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12230-015-9493-1

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