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ALHAMRA, STEMSTER, SKIRZA: Three new cultivars from Caithness, Scotland

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A new private potato breeding company was established in Caithness, Scotland in 1983. In August 1986 the first three potato varieties from ‘Caithness Potato Breeders Ltd.’ were accepted onto the United Kingdom National List of Potato Varieties. These three cultivars—ALHAMRA (maincrop), STEMSTER (maincrop), SKIRZA (second early), are all red-skinned and result from a cross between ‘Desiree’ and ‘Maris Piper’. All three cultivars have demonstrated high yield potential, ‘Stemster’ particularly so, and all are resistant to one pathotype of the golden (potato cyst) nematode, unlike ‘Desiree’ their red-skinned parent.

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Una nueva compañia privada para el mejoramiento de la papa fue establecida en Caithness, Escocia, en 1983. En agosto de 1986, las tres primeras variedades de papa de “Caithness Potato Breeders Ltd.” fueron aceptadas en las Lista Nacional de Variedades de Papa del Reino Unido. Estas tres variedades ALHAMRA (cultivo principal), STEMSTER (cultivo principal), y SKIRZA (segundo cultivo temprano) son todas de piel roja y provienen de un cruzamiento entre ‘Desirée’ y ‘Maris Piper’. Las tres variedades han demostrado tener un potencial de rendimiento alto, particularmente ‘STEMSTER’, y todas son resistentes a un patotipo del nematodo dorado de la papa (nematodo del quiste), al contrario que su progenitor de piel roja ‘Desirée’.

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  1. U.K. Plant Variety and Seeds Gazette, M.A.F.F. No. 261, October 1986.

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Honess, B.L., Dunnett, J. ALHAMRA, STEMSTER, SKIRZA: Three new cultivars from Caithness, Scotland. American Potato Journal 65, 11–16 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855309

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