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Somerset: A new chipping potato variety

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The Somerset potato variety is a medium-maturing variety with attractive, round to oblong, white-skinned, white-fleshed tubers with shallow eyes. Its major use is expected to be as a chipping variety in areas where potatoes are stored for some length of time, since its sugar content is lower than most varieties during storage, and it can be chipped after six months in storage. Somerset does not show the net necrosis caused by potato leafroll virus, and is immune to race 0 of Phytophthora infestans (late blight). Somerset is also moderately resistant to infection by Alternaria solani (early blight), and is only moderately susceptible to Verticillium wilt. Somerset is more susceptible to both common and acid scab than Superior, but less susceptible than Kennebec and Katahdin. It also has shown susceptibility to skinning and shatter bruise, but does not have a strong blackspot bruise reaction.

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  1. Aroostook Farm, 59 Houlton Road, 04769, Presque Isle, ME

    R. H. True

  2. Plant Breeder, University of Maine (UM), Orono

    R. H. True

  3. UM, 114 Deering Hall, 04469, Orono, ME

    R. H. True

  4. Cooperative Extension Service, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), 102 Tyson Building, University Park, 16802, PA

    R. H. True

  5. Wise Foods, Borden Inc., 16803, Berwick, PA

    R. H. True

  6. PSU, 211 Buckhout Laboratory, University Park, 16802, PA

    R. H. True

  7. UM, 145 Hitchner Hall, 04469, Orono, ME

    R. H. True

  8. UM, 205B Holmes Hall, 04469, Orono, ME

    A. F. Reeves, R. V. Akeley, H. J. Murphy, G. A. Porter, R. H. Cole, J. Watts, B. J. Christ & F. E. Manzer

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True, R.H., Reeves, A.F., Akeley, R.V. et al. Somerset: A new chipping potato variety. American Potato Journal 67, 153–161 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987068

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