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Name
Sree Arun
Year of Release
2002
Maturity
90 days
Yield
20-28t ha-1
Potential yield
30 t ha-1
Species
Sweet Potato
Suitable growing region
Kerala (uplands)
Pedigree
Seeding from recurrent selection of seeds of polycross
Key traits
  • Spreading type, vine green with light brown emerging leaf
  • Leaf cordate in shape; petiole green with purple spot near the leaf base
  • Sparse flowering; Storage roots fusiform short / spherical with very pale pink skin and cream flesh
  • Total starch19.7-20.4%, Good cooking quality; Early maturing type
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