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- Year of release: 1987
- Pedigree: Clonal selection from germplasm
- Yield: 25-30 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 44 t ha-1
- Maturity: 9-10 months
- Suitable growing regions: Kerala
Key traits:
- Climber twining to right, male plant with green vine
- Light brown emerging leaves and sagittate broad leaves with green petiole
- Conical tuber with rough texture, brown skin, yellowish cortex and white flesh colour
- Resistant to anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
- Tolerant to scale insect during storage
- Suitable for intercropping in mature coconut gardens as well as with banana
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