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Nipigon is a high-yielding, early sizing, table potato with good boiling and baking quality and is specifically adapted to northern Ontario. It has some resistance to late blight, rhizoctonia and viruses X and Y.
The Nipigon potato was bred and initially selected within the Potato Breeding Project at the Fredericton Rcsearch Station of Agriculture Canada. This variety has been under test as seedling F61051 since 1965 throughout eastern Canada, but mostly in Ontario.
Nipigon was selected from the progeny of a cross between two Fredericton seedlings; F53026 an early, scab-resistant seedling with very good tuber type and F51043, which has good processing quality and resistance to the common races of late blight,Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary. The pedigree is as follows:
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Nickerson Color Fan, 1957. Munsell Color Co. Inc. Distr. by American Horticultural Council. Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain 30. Mass.
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A lake in the area of northern Ontario to which this variety is adapted.
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Johnston, G.R., Towill, W.B. & Rowberry, R.G. Nipigon: A new high-yielding, early sizing table potato. American Potato Journal 55, 107–110 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02852097
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02852097