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- Year of release: 1998
- Pedigree: Hybrid (Da - 140 x Sree Keerthi)
- Yield: 28 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 40.4 t ha-1
- Maturity: 8 months
- Suitable growing regions: Kerala
Key traits:
- Climber twining to right, male plant with purplish green vine
- Green emerging leaf and cordate leaves with overlapping lobes
- Swollen, oval, smooth tuber with black skin, yellow cortex and white flesh colour
- Tubers with less starch (17.0-19.0%) and medium protein (1.4-2.0%) content
- Purple petiole
- Excellent cooking quality
- World's first hybrid variety released in D. alata
- Medium sized oval tubers with easy harvestability
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