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Chieftain: A red-skinned potato with attractive appearance and broad adaptability

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Chieftain is a red potato with an attractive appearance, good yield and medium maturity. Its primary area of adaptabililty is in the North Central States. Chieftain has shown immunity to the common races of late blight, medium to high resistance to common scab, field resistance to mild mosaic, tuber resistance to stem-end browning and tuber resistance to net necrosis caused by current season leafroll. Chieftain has excellent quality after boiling but does not make acceptable chips after cold storage. The parentage of Chieftain includes Cherokee, Progress, Pontiac, Houma, Katahdin andS. acaule.

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La variedad Chieftain es una papa roja con una atractiva apariencia, buenos rendimientos y madurez media. Su area primaria de adaptación es en los estados Nor-Centrales de los E.E.U.U. La variedad ha exhibido immunidad a las razas communes dePhytophthora, resistencia de media a superior a commune sarma, resistencia en el campo al mosaico, “chocolate.” de la papa (la mancha proximo al punto donde se une con el tallo) y a la necrosís causada por corriente encrespaduras de hoja. Tiene una excellente calidad después de hervir, pero no hace aceptable papas fritas después del depositado en cámaras frias. Los antecesores de la variedad incluyen Cherokee, Progress, Pontiac, Houma, Katahdin yS. acaule.

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Journal Paper No. J-S865 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, Project No. 1618.

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Weigle, J.L., Kehr, A.E., Akeley, R.V. et al. Chieftain: A red-skinned potato with attractive appearance and broad adaptability. American Potato Journal 45, 293–296 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02850285

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