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Potatoes roasted with a drizzle of your favorite healthy cooking oil is perfectly fine, she says, and if you like boiled potatoes (which don't require any added fat) that's great too. But a dish ...
These potatoes also have coloured skin, but many varieties with pink or red skin have white or yellow flesh, as do the vast majority of cultivated potatoes. The yellow colour, more or less marked, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
The Villetta Rose is a late maturing red potato variety. It was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is under plant variety protection. It originated from a cross between Dark Red Norland and Nordonna varieties. [1] 'Villetta Rose' has a medium to long dormancy, stores well and maintains its red color in storage.
Adirondack Red is a potato variety with red flesh and skin, bred by Cornell University potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock and Walter De Jong, and released in 2004. The Adirondack varieties are unusual because both the skin and the flesh are colored and have high levels of anti-oxidants . [ 1 ]
Common scab is a prevalent plant disease that is caused by the bacteria Streptomyces and it can affect a wide range of taproot crop hosts. Some examples of Streptomyces hosts are potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, rutabagas, and turnips.
The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned main-crop potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962. It has yellow flesh with a distinctive flavour and is a favourite with allotment -holders because of its resistance to drought, and is fairly resistant to disease. [ 1 ]
Blackleg of Potato complete plant wilt in field. These plants can sometimes be lost in the canopy. Blackleg is a plant disease of potato caused by pectolytic bacteria that can result in stunting, wilting, chlorosis of leaves, necrosis of several tissues, a decline in yield, and at times the death of the potato plant.
The Vivaldi potato is field immune to potato wart, and highly resistant to potato viruses A and Y. It is moderately resistant to leaf roll, potato virus X, late blight on tuber, silver scurf, blackleg and black dot, and is moderately susceptible to late blight on leaves, common scab, powdery scab, rhizoctonia and skin spot. [3]