New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts
Cultivar release
‘Moonlight’: a new dual-purpose main crop potato (Solanum tuberosum)
cultivar
J. A. D. Anderson
S. L. Lewthwaite
New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food
Research Limited
Cronin Road, RD 1
Pukekohe, New Zealand
email: andersonjad@crop.cri.nz
R. A. Genet
W. F. Braam
New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food
Research Limited
Private Bag 4704
Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract ‘Moonlight’ is a new early-main to main crop
potato (Solanum tuberosum) cultivar with high yield potential that
has been developed for both the fresh market and French fry production. Tubers
are oval and have white flesh. ‘Moonlight’ has moderate resistance to the
cream potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) and has the H1 gene
for resistance to G. rostochiensis. It also has moderately high resistance
to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea) and bacterial soft rot (Erwinia
sp.)
Keywords Solanum tuberosum; potato; disease resistance;
Globodera pallida
H03052; Online publication date 17 March 2004; Received 19 May 2003; accepted
17 November 2003
New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2004, Vol. 32:
153-156
0014-0671/04/3201-0153 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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