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Niska: A maincrop chipping potato cultivar with high specific gravity and good quality after storage

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Niska is a white-skinned, white-fleshed potato cultivar with a maincrop maturity, stable yield and chipping quality and good storage characteristics. It has considerable resistance to Common scab, Early blight, PLRV, PVY and PVS. Evaluation conducted by chip processors in Alberta and Ontario, under commercial conditions, indicates that the cultivar has good storage characteristics.

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Niska es un cultivar de papa de piel y pulpa blancas con maduración en la temporada principal, rendimiento estable y características de buena calidad para fritura a la inglesa y almacenamiento. Tiene resistencia considerable a la sarna común, al tizón temprano y a los virus PLRV, PVY y PVS. La evaluatión conducida por procesadores de papas fritas a la inglesa en Alberta y Ontario, bajo condiciones comerciales, indica que el cultivar tiene buenas características de almacenamiento.

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  1. Research Station, Agriculture Canada, T1J 4B1, Lethbridge, AB

    D. R. Lynch (Research Scientist) & G. A Nelson

  2. UW-Lelch Starks Potato Breeding Farm, 54501, Rhinelander, WI

    D. Kichefski (Agricultural Project Supervisor (Potato Breeder)

  3. University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI

    S. Peloquin (Campbell Bascom Professor of Horticulture and Genetics)

  4. Alberta Special Crops and Horticultural Research Centre, T0J 0J0, Brooks, AB

    C. S. Schaupmeyer (Potato Specialist)

  5. Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MN

    L. la Croix (Professor)

  6. Department of Horticultural Science, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, SK

    D. Waterer (Associate Professor)

  7. Department of Plant Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E1, Edmonton, AB

    Wm. T. Andrew (Emeritus Professor)

  8. Alberta Special Crops and Horticultural Research Centre, T0J 0J0, Brooks, AB

    J. Holley (Plant Pathologist) & N. Crowe (Food Scientist)

  9. Department of Food Science, University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MN

    B. McConnell (Professor)

  10. Research Station, Agriculture Canada, R0G 1J0, Morden, MN

    B. Rex (Research Biologist)

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  1. D. R. Lynch
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Niska is the Cree word for goose.

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Lynch, D.R., Kichefski, D., Peloquin, S. et al. Niska: A maincrop chipping potato cultivar with high specific gravity and good quality after storage. American Potato Journal 68, 143–149 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02853895

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