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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.
The Red Pontiac (also known as Dakota Chief) is a red-skinned early main crop potato variety originally bred in the United States, [1] and is sold in the United States, Canada, Australia, Marruecos, the Philippines, Venezuela and Uruguay. It arose as a color mutant of the original Pontiac variety in Florida [2] by a J.W. Weston in 1945. [3]
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.
It is a deep red mutant of the potato variety 'La Soda'. The non-mutant form was developed by the Louisiana potato breeding program in 1948 as a cross between 'Triumph' and 'Katahdin'. The mutant form was first observed in 1949 but was not released until 1953 by the United States Department of Agriculture, ( USDA ) and the Louisiana ...
Fennel is allelopathic to most garden plants, inhibiting growth, causing to bolt, or actually killing many plants. [87] When growing together a higher ratio of fennel to dill provides the highest profit. Dill has a stabilizing effect on the fennel seed. [86] Because it attracts syrphidae it reduces aphids through predation. [65] Flax: Linum ...
Inventor and writer Sir Hugh Platt published Garden of Eden in 1660, a book which directed indoor plant growing methods. [17] Wealthy British households purchased imported fruit trees, especially citrus trees, to grow in specialized orangeries. [18]: 21–31 Less wealthy people would also grow plants, especially flowers, indoors.
Solanum crinitum, also frequently called Solanum macranthum (common name giant star potato tree) is a medium-sized (to forty feet (twelve meters) tropical tree from Brazil belonging to the Potato family and is noteworthy for three things. First its flowers continue to grow bigger even after they open, doubling in size, and eventually becoming ...
The Maris Building in Trumpington where Maris Piper was developed The leaves of Maris Piper A side view of a crop of Maris Piper in flower. Attempts to find resistance to the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis in wild potatoes began in 1941, when Conrad Ellenby started testing over 60 species held in the Commonwealth Potato Collection, finding that few were resistant or suitable to ...